"Lift Every Voice and Sing," often called the "Black national ... it should be a song that all people can love and find their place in the lyrics, in the harmony of the song," Jones said.

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

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 ... place in the lyrics, in the harmony ...

The ceremony ended with the hymn, whose words were written by the great Black poet James Weldon Johnson, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," sung altogether by everyone in attendance.

The record is steeped in classic blues riffs, and it has some of the saucy lyrics Rush is known ... performed “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” known as the Black National Anthem, at the Superdome ...

Rosamond Johnson, who scored the Black National Anthem "Lift Every Voice and Sing" for his brother James Weldon Johnson, who wrote the lyrics. Another stop, the home of poet and writer Larry Neil ...

Pete Carroll’s third draft clue is a snippet of OutKast lyrics. Not sure how this ... with a rousing version of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” performed by a choir before a relatively spare ...

with a rousing version of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” performed by a choir before a relatively spare rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” 7:53 PM: Roger Goodell: NFL will make ‘right ...

Juxtaposing idyllic, florid scenes of a Southern landscape with uncompromising descriptions of black bodies swaying from a tree in the Southern breeze, his words ... “Lift Every Voice And Sing ...

There might not be a more polarizing pre-event song these days than “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is also referred to as the “Black National Anthem.” The MAGA crowd tends to hate it ...