“She was a solid choir member until February, when I would program this song, ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing,’ and she saw it as a divisive song,” Duff, who is Black, told the panelists.

At age 5, Aquil Sudah first heard the “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” or as he prefers to call it, the Black National Anthem. The hymn, written by James Weldon Johnson and composed by J. Rosamond ...

Yasmina Porter greets a friend as the Santa Cruz Juneteenth Choir sings “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as the 34th Santa Cruz Juneteenth celebration fills Laurel Park behind London Nelson ...

“They ruined the vibe of it. Boooooo.” “MAGA is big mad that the NFL had a choir sing Lift Every Voice and Sing, ‘the Black National Anthem,’ for Draft Day,” another person wrote on X.

Andrews, who studies African American and African diasporic music, was one of a dozen speakers at a daylong symposium on “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” on Thursday (June 12) at the museum.