Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty,” goes the lyric written in 1900 by ...

The school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children.

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

VocalEssence has revealed the performances for its 57th concert season. The seven concerts in the 2025-2026 season show the ...

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

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there's Juneteenth, birthdays for Gallery 263 and “Rocky Horror ...

“She’s the one who sent you all those wonderful poems,” Gwendolyn’s mother told James Weldon Johnson, who wrote the lyrics for “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” afterward dubbed the ...

The Massachusetts-based James Weldon Johnson Foundation, named after the poet, civil rights activist, and diplomat himself, organized the performance. In an interview April 27, foundation ...

I don’t know what James Weldon Johnson thought about: I can’t speak to that. And I do see the value in taking time to recognize the contributions of others just as contributions, but I’m ...

It’s a song derived from a poem written by James Weldon Johnson, a Black poet, in 1900. In 1920, the NAACP, then chiefly a Black organization, adopted the song as “The Negro National Anthem.” ...

NEW ORLEANS – The James Weldon Johnson Foundation, headquartered in Great Barrington ... thinker and Renaissance man whose achievements as an author, lyricist, poet, diplomat, attorney, educator, and ...

A biography of James Weldon Johnson whose career included music, poetry, and public service. Includes a visualization of his poem The creation, with a reading by Raymond St. Jacques. Johnson ...