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

The more than 180-year-old compilation of sacred songs uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds.

In 1984, the Texas Historical Commission erected a historical ... the first stanza of James Weldon Johnson’s hymn, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which encourages her to “face the rising ...

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 ...

One of Lawrence’s biggest hits is adjacent to the messages of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” The Black National ... in partnership with Regional Arts Commission.

Since 2021, pregame ceremonies for football’s biggest night have included a performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a hymn penned in 1899 by James Weldon Johnson. Mr. Johnson was a civil rights ...

“Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn known by many as the “Black national anthem,” was written in 1899 by James Weldon Johnson, who later bought a home and writing cabin off Alford Road in Great ...

For the fifth year in a row, the Super Bowl pregame show will feature a performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," the song ... we may earn a commission. Prices were accurate at the time of ...

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 ...