Aliza covers trending news, often focusing on crime and politics. Singer Ledisi performed "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which is widely known as the Black national anthem, at the start of the 2025 ...

‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ is a hymn written by two brothers in the early 1900s in response to the struggles faced by African Americans following Reconstruction, and the Jim Crow laws that enforced ...

The story in the Mirror tells us the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has stirred angst among ... This is my first time to send a letter to the editor. I couldn’t pass up this opportunity ...

The Black National Anthem – “Lift Every Voice and Sing” – is a hymn written as a poem by then NAACP leader James Weldon ...

Grammy and Golden Globe winner Andra Day will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the Super Bowl on ... and began playing piano at 4 years old. He later studied at the New England Conservatory ...

The Black National Anthem — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — is a hymn written as a poem by then-NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) in 1900. His brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873 ...

“Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” is as familiar to me as many of the hymns sung in churches every week. As a small child, I listened to my eldest sister, Marian, playing the piano and singing ...

From its beginnings as a birthday tribute to Abraham Lincoln sung in 1900 by 500 black schoolchildren in segregated Florida, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has evolved into the unofficial black ...

By Billboard Staff Grammy-winning gospel sister duo Mary Mary will perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing” ahead of the 2022 Super Bowl on Sunday. In 2010, the dynamic duo of Trecina Atkins ...