Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign ...

So whenever your faith needs a little recharge—or when you just want to sit with something real—press play on these. Let them ...

A man who woke up in the hospital unable to speak after a stroke has found his voice again – by singing Elvis Presley. Paul ...

One song tells of a 14-year-old girl in the southern state of Tabasco who killed her father when he was abusing her mother. Another tells of Yakiri Rubio, who was kidnapped by two men, taken to a ...

The Black National Anthem — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — is a hymn written ... (1873-1954), wrote and composed the music and arrangements for the lyrics. American history tells us that ...

While “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was not the only song played before “The Star Spangled Banner” on Sunday, many on social media singled out the hymn for criticism, claiming that its performance ...

Johnson’s brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, wrote the music, melody and harmonies to “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” The pair were part of a trio — Cole and Johnson Brothers — who wrote more than 200 ...

Little things — like a song. "Lift Every Voice and Sing," celebrating its 125th anniversary ... "More than a century later, we routinely see snippets of the lyrics excerpted as titles for ...

Ledisi gave a soul-stirring and impassioned performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” during the pregame ... in yellow robes to celebrate the song’s 125th anniversary.

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics written by James Weldon Johnson ... secretary at the time the hymn was written, the song was "prominently used as a rallying cry during the ...