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A sold-out soccer game in San Diego becomes a metaphor for American unity when the crowd's collective singing of the national ...

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At age 5, Aquil Sudah first heard the “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” or as he prefers to call it, the Black National Anthem. The hymn, written by James Weldon Johnson and composed by J. Rosamond Johnson ...

A river of music runs it – a few notes from “Lift Every Voice And Sing,” the unofficial Black National Anthem. Like Simmons, Bailey fights the tide of selective historical amnesia.

OTTAWA — While the country will celebrate its birthday next week, O Canada got a head start on Friday as Canada marked its 45th year as the official national anthem.

National Geographic Explorer and archaeologist Dr. Alicia Odewale works alongside a student during a recent Black History Saturday session in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

In a new interview, Brodway star Kristin Chenoweth defended her version of the National Anthem during Game 7 of the NBA Finals.

Cited as one of the first representations of black queer popular culture, Ma Rainey's sensational Prove It on Me Blues is a landmark song that had a profound and lasting effect.