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 ...

The Rev. Dr. Brown explained in a 2019 Church News video that “Come, Come Ye Saints” and the iconic Black spiritual “Lift ...

“Personal to Political” lives up to its name at Sarasota Art Museum. It showcases the work of 17 Black contemporary artists affiliated with Paulson Fontaine Press. They all get personal when it comes ...

Fans can catch "CMA Fest presented by SoFi" at 8/7c tonight on ABC. The CMA special will be available on Hulu starting Friday ...

The demands of artist’s work are simple: everything that has been taken from Indigenous peoples must be returned ...

Thus, he was pleasantly surprised to watch his alma mater’s Wind ensemble perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at his job on June 12, in what he called “a full circle moment” during the Museum of the ...

Kendrick Lamar, Ledisi and others are creating the soundtrack for this cultural inflection point and for the legacy of ...

Explore the significance of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' at the 125th anniversary symposium, highlighting its cultural and ...

Featuring art installations and musical tributes, the Museum of the Bible in Southwest, D.C., celebrated 125 years of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” or as it's culturally known, the Black ...

Released in 2011, "The National Anthem" offered criticism of politics, art, and rebellion that aren't on their face irrational. This stands in juxtaposition to kidnapping and traumatizing a young ...

Petty’s obsession with Elvis Presley started at the tender age of ten. That was when Petty’s uncle got a job on the set of the 1962 film Follow That Dream – a fitting title for Petty’s own sound – ...