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

The drum, bass guitar and piano players set a mid-tempo pace ... the first stanza of James Weldon Johnson’s hymn, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which encourages her to “face the rising ...

Nevaeh “Vivi” Vilella, a sixth grader at Central Middle School, performed “Lift Every Voice and Sing” in February as part of the ... CMS choir teacher Adam Petroski provided piano accompaniment, and ...

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 ...

This year marks the 125th anniversary of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the soul-stirring anthem that has captured ... But they also established their own paths forward. A child piano prodigy, Rosamond ...

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 ...

For the fifth year in a row, the Super Bowl pregame show will feature a performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," the song ... school and studied opera and piano at the University of California ...

"Lift Every ... poem "Lift Every Voice and Sing" in 1900. It was his composer brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, who set it to music. Both Johnsons are key figures in American arts and letters.

Batiste wore all black and sang the song while playing his piano. Attendees inside ... Lauren Daigle and Trombone Shorty and “Lift Every Voice and Sing” performer Ledisi.

Ledisi gave a soul-stirring and impassioned performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” during the pregame ceremony at the Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Sunday. The R&B singer stood on a ...

He sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” in a black suit adorned with sparkling brooches while playing the anthem on piano ... and Ledisi (who sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing”).

Sporting an all-black suit and sitting at a piano, the Grammy-winning musician ... Banner came a beautiful rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by singer Ledisi and a performance of ...