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

Communities across Columbus and central Ohio are hosting events to celebrate Juneteenth, a federal holiday commemorating the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas, ...

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

From Round Rock to the Paramount Theatre, Austin honors Juneteenth with a vibrant mix of celebration and reflection. Whether ...

Singer Ledisi performed "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which is widely known as the ... set out to write a poem to to commemorate President Abraham Lincoln's birthday, and the piece became a song.

The Black National Anthem — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — is a hymn written as a poem by then-NAACP leader ... the music and arrangements for the lyrics. American history tells us that ...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics written by James Weldon Johnson ... which was initially written as a poem. The organization said it was first performed in public by a choir ...