“Lift Every Voice and Sing,” begins on a powerful low note, then steadily rises in rhythm, spanning the pain and promise of Black history, picking up pace in the stanzas until its final crescend ...

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” was a hymn written as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in 1900, according to the organization. His brother, John Rosamond Johnson, composed the music for ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Black national anthem was born more than a century ago, but the popular hymn within the African American community called “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has resurrected a ...

Everybody can identify with that song." What is the history of 'Lift Every Voice And Sing' at the Super Bowl? In response to the racial reckoning that played out during the summer of 2020 ...

An educator in Jacksonville, Florida is lighting up our timelines with Black joy at the top of Black History Month ... she taught them the lyrics to Lift Every Voice and Sing, also known as ...

NEW ORLEANS — Grammy Award winner Ledisi will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" before the Super Bowl on Sunday, part of a pregame lineup of artists with Louisiana ties. Ledisi has earned ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Dr. Kim Dulaney, the Vice President of ...