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

The band is back for its 57th season under new conductor Dave Pedracine. Longtime conductor Jim Latimer is retiring but still involved.

Simril-Simrill family history is one of heroism and hate, tying kin from the Carolinas to others across the US and abroad.

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 ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — It is a hymn once sung by Black servicemen on the war front, but is now a staple of pregame Super Bowl ceremonies — sparking controversy for some and feelings of resilience for ...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics written by James Weldon Johnson. The hymn is also known as "The Black National Anthem." According to the NAACP, where Johnson served as executive ...

It was written by James Weldon Johnson, who considered the piece a hymn. James Weldon Johnson's "Lift Every Voice and Sing," colloquially known as the Black national anthem, was originally written ...

"To make ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ a national hymn, would be an act of bringing the country together," he wrote. "The gesture itself would be an act of healing. Everybody can identify with ...

Some of Wesley’s instructions lean toward micro-managing; others seem as appropriate as they were when he published them in a 1761 hymn book. “Sing ... but lift up your voice with strength.

That same year, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn also proposed a bill that would make “Lift Every Voice and Sing” the “national hymn” of the United States. “To make it a national hymn ...

Now known as the “Black national anthem,” “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was penned in 1900 as a hymn of hope—grounded in the belief that resilient faith would sustain us against oppression.

“Clearly, by his hand, he called it “National Hymn.” The song received its better-known names—Lift Every Voice and Sing, and The Negro National Anthem, now known as The Black National ...