In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Hot Corner Festival, this year's festivities are scheduled to begin on Monday, ...

Melissa Ferrer Civil found community, and a path toward better mental health, through poetry. Now, she’s spreading the good ...

Los Angeles honored Malcolm X’s 100th birthday with a street dedication and Legacy Festival, celebrating his lasting impact ...

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

The Black National Anthem — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — is a hymn written as a poem by then-NAACP leader ... the music and arrangements for the lyrics. American history tells us that ...

“Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn known by many as the “Black national anthem ... But local historians say Johnson never intended his poem to be seen as a Black anthem, but rather a hymn for all ...

Celebrations are underway, marking the 125th anniversary of the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing ... Johnson wrote the poem and his brother Rosamond put the words to music.

By Kimberly Nordyke Managing Editor, Digital Ledisi took to the field at Super Bowl LIX on Sunday to deliver a powerful performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing ... as a poem, with music ...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics written by James Weldon Johnson ... which was initially written as a poem. The organization said it was first performed in public by a choir ...