Members of the James Weldon Johnson Foundation's National Hymn Choir perform 'Lift Every Voice' ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft. Tom Pelissero discusses which quarterbacks could be drafted Day 3 of ...

The hymn’s origins trace back to a segregated school in Jacksonville, Florida, led by activist and author James Weldon Johnson, according to the NAACP. Emmy Award-winning actress Sheryl Lee ...

Here’s what we learned: “When James Weldon Johnson wrote the lyrics for the song in 1900, he originally called it “National Hymn,” says Jones. This can be observed in Johnson’s own ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Over the years, James Weldon Johnson’s “Five Acres” estate somehow lost ... He and his brother wrote the “National Hymn,” the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” It’s also known as ...

A celebration to honor the anniversary of the hymn "Lift Every Voice and Sing" written by Jacksonville-born writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson was held at his park on Monday ...

A Milwaukee-based choir, the James Weldon Johnson Foundation's 'National Hymn Choir', performed 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' ahead of the draft in Green Bay Thursday night. The choral ...

It is widely regarded as “The Black National Anthem.” In 1900, NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson wrote the hymn, while his brother, John Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954), composed the music.

The James Weldon Johnson Foundation’s "National Hymn Choir" sang "Lift Every Voice and Sing." NFL fans waiting for the draft to begin took it all in before NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell ...

It's a song with a moniker — the "Black national anthem" — that stirs emotions throughout the U.S. But few people know that "Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn written in 1900 by James Weldon ...

It is the cabin where Harlem Renaissance poet and NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson did his writing ... to one of the Mellon grant documents. Johnson is perhaps best known for the poem that would ...

YES, WE’VE SEEN A LOT MORE AWARENESS OF WHO JAMES WELDON JOHNSON WAS AND THE IMPACT THAT HE HAD ON OUR CULTURE. EVERYTHING FROM THE NFL INTRODUCING LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING AS A NATIONAL HYMN.