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.

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 … ...

“Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty,” goes the lyric written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother J. Rosamond ...

“Listening to this Choir Sing the ‘Black National Anthem’ lift every voice at the NFL draft…” another wrote. “Stupid Anthem and it sounded Awful @NFL @nflnetwork. We have 1 National ...