Yasmina Porter greets a friend as the Santa Cruz Juneteenth Choir sings “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as the 34th Santa Cruz ...

In recent years, the NFL began incorporating “Lift Every Voice and Sing” to its regular pregame customs. In 2021, it officially became part of the Super Bowl. While the song’s history with ...

Civil rights icon James Weldon Johnson wrote the poem and his brother Rosamond ... Executive Director of the 125th Lift Every Voice and Sing Anniversary. The celebrations kick off Wednesday ...

"That's the beauty of the poem." "Lift every voice and sing" begins the song. But when Johnson originally wrote the poem, he intended to celebrate the birthday of President Abraham Lincoln.

“Lift Every Voice and Sing" was originally written as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in the late 1800s, highlighting Black Americans' hope for liberty. The poem was later put to ...

Lift Every Voice and Sing has been performed at every Super Bowl ... which was initially written as a poem. The organization said it was first performed in public by a choir of 500 schoolchildren ...

The Black National Anthem — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — is a hymn written as a poem by then-NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) in 1900. His brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873 ...