“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 ...

civil rights leader and poet James Weldon Johnson and musician J. Rosamund Johnson composed “Lift Every Voice and Sing”—the song we now know as the Black National Anthem. One hundred and ...

He talked about the brilliance of LeBron James and Stephen Curry—not ... but then came the black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” As the lyrics rang out over the crowd, the ...

It's the time of year in Jacksonville for Juneteenth events, dance recitals and season finales. Here are 100-plus fun things ...

Past festivals have been held at Metropolitan Park, Daily's Place, James Weldon Johnson Park, the downtown courthouse, the old Jacksonville Landing, the Ford on Bay site and at Mayport.

The audience rose and joined the OSU African American Voices Gospel Choir to sing a rendition of Lift Every Voice and Sing, also known as the Black national anthem. Unlike a typical Ohio State ...

James Weldon Johnson School is a public school located in New York, NY, which is in a large city setting. The student population of James Weldon Johnson School is 526 and the school serves PK-8.

On a drive through downtown to a Jaguars game, state Rep. Sam Garrison saw so many homeless people along the streets that a few months later, he helped push through a new state law against camping ...