WASHINGTON (RNS) — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a hymn many African Americans of older generations just know. They’d sung it in church, learned it in school and stood for what is dubbed ...

Why ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ sparks debate — and what its author, who lived in Great Barrington, really intended The performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" by Ledisi and a chorus of New Orleans ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — It is a hymn once sung by Black servicemen on the war front, but is now a staple of pregame Super Bowl ceremonies — sparking controversy for some and feelings of resilience for ...

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 ...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing," celebrating its 125th anniversary on Feb. 12, is one of only about 20 million flashpoints, now, between the "woke" left and the "authoritarian" right.

New Orleans singer-songwriter and 125 New Orleans high school students celebrated the 125th anniversary of “Lift Every Voice And Sing” at the Super Bowl.

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.

After their annual tradition of performing “Lift Every Voice,” which has varied in arrangement and performance styles over the years, the concert paid homage to Black women. This happened ...

Singer-songwriter and music producer Ledisi and American Sign Language translator Otis Jones perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at Super Bowl LIX. Watch Kendrick Lamar's full performance of the ...

The respect. The song is a call to action, meaning, it’s time for us to come together,” said Sharon Coon, Executive Director of the 125th Lift Every Voice and Sing Anniversary.

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.