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It's the time of year in Jacksonville for Juneteenth events, dance recitals and season finales. Here are 100-plus fun things ...
Highlights this week include Ledisi bringing her tour to NJPAC, Puerto Rican comedian Gabe González’s free FUERZAfest show ...
Monday, May 19, 2025, would have been Malcolm X’s 100th birthday. Celebrations were held across the nation to honor the tireless civil rights activist. Locally, the City of Los Angeles teamed up with ...
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 ...
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 ...
“Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn known by many as the “Black national anthem ... “As an artist, he is not constrained by color, his art is not constrained by a construction of race.” While some ...
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 ...
NEW ORLEANS — Grammy Award-winning R&B powerhouse Ledisi will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans' Caesars Superdome on Sunday, marking another historic moment ...
By Kimberly Nordyke Managing Editor, Digital Ledisi took to the field at Super Bowl LIX on Sunday to deliver a powerful performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Ledisi, a New Orleans native ...
NEW ORLEANS — Grammy Award winner Ledisi will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" before the Super Bowl on Sunday, part of a pregame lineup of artists with Louisiana ties. Ledisi has earned ...