A man works to create more rail trails, while a couple restores the cabin of writer and early civil rights figure, James Weldon Johnson Share Updated: 8:20 PM EDT Oct 8, 2024 Infinite Scroll Enabled ...

A choir of Milwaukee singers performed the song, originally named "National Hymn," to help open the 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay last week. The Massachusetts-based James Weldon Johnson Foundation ...

The hymn, written by James Weldon Johnson and composed by J. Rosamond Johnson in 1900, was celebrated during a Museum of the Bible symposium on June 12, 2025, in Washington D.C.

In 2016, Jill and Rufus formed the James Weldon Johnson Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to advancing Johnson's remarkable legacy through both education and an artist-in-residence program.

It is the cabin where Harlem Renaissance poet and NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson did his writing when he was in the Berkshires. It was where he found peace nestled in a hemlock grove. Now a ...