Alicia Keys performed “Lift Every Voice ... He took his words to his younger brother, a classically trained composer named J. Rosamond Johnson, and "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" (as it is ...

Even though many rights for black Americans had been swept away by Jim Crow laws, the first stanza’s lyrics are surprisingly optimistic: “Lift every voice and sing / Till earth and heaven ring ...

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

Singer-songwriter and music producer Ledisi and American Sign Language translator Otis Jones perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at Super ... Bowl's first-ever pre-game poem honoring team captains ...

"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.

Singer-songwriter and music producer Ledisi and American Sign Language translator Otis Jones perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at Super ... Bowl's first-ever pre-game poem honoring team captains ...