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

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,” was written in 1899 by James Weldon Johnson, who later bought a home and writing cabin off Alford Road in Great ...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing," celebrating its 125th anniversary ... Seven Negro Sermons in Verse" (1927) and served as Teddy Roosevelt's consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua. His brother Rosamond ...

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 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 ...