It's a song with a moniker — the "Black national anthem" — that stirs emotions throughout the U.S. But few people know that "Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn written in 1900 by James Weldon ...

The audience rose and joined the OSU African American Voices Gospel Choir to sing a rendition of Lift Every Voice and Sing, also known as the Black national anthem. Unlike a typical Ohio State ...

“She’s the one who sent you all those wonderful poems,” Gwendolyn’s mother told James Weldon Johnson, who wrote the lyrics for “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” afterward dubbed the ...

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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 ...

MARTIN: That was Ledisi with that powerful rendition of "Lift Every Voice," sometimes called the ... this is the time an artist needs to rise to sing the words, thank you. I love you.

Rosamund Johnson composed “Lift Every Voice and Sing”—the song we now know as the Black National Anthem. One hundred and twenty-five years ago, 500 Black schoolchildren in Florida first sang ...

You can kiss the ones you love, bite into an apple, sing, and sigh ... His years of work with face transplants also make him the voice of experience and wisdom on the clinic’s face transplant ...

The Lift Bridge is now staffed from 8 a.m. to midnight each day, and the bridge will lift every half hour if boat traffic is present. The lift schedule is expected to stay in effect through late ...

“So over time you watch hitters and you see what those guys did, and a lot of those attributes show up every night with James ... but I don’t try and lift it in the air or anything.

Kendal Conrad is on a mission to sing the national anthem in every major league ballpark in the country. She's on her way, and she's done it for 7 MLB teams so far from coast to coast including ...