Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first ...

"That's the beauty of the poem." "Lift every voice and sing" begins the song ... that all people can love and find their place in the lyrics, in the harmony of the song," Jones said.

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish ... The poem’s individual words and syllables bob like a string of harbor buoys. Every line is propelled by the cadence of stressed and unstressed syllables.

In 2016, the Pretenders released their 10th album, Alone - but Chrissie Hynde was showing no sign of playing the game ...

The national anthem was played first, but then came the black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” As the lyrics rang out over the crowd, the students held up the black-power fist—a ...

These repetitions reveal a harrowing truth. Such a portrait is timeless as long as racial inequality far too frequently sinks life and chances of life in this country. And despite the shrill denials ...

Its poetic structure supports early literacy, and lyrics from the Black national anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," are woven throughout the ... more than two years after the Emancipation ...

Their poetry and poise have had a transformative ... along with his lyrics, are his greatest genius. Even the counterpoint lines—they give a celestial character and melodic lift to every one of his ...

Stringer was a man of enormous hands and gentle words. A poet at heart ... will culminate with a community singing of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Yarborough said the annual event aims ...