The music employs word painting; for example, the melody reaches its highest note on “rise” in the first verse ... optimistic: “Lift every voice and sing / Till earth and heaven ring ...

Read full article: ‘Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing’ performed at Super Bowl exactly 123 years after song first debuted in Jacksonville Actress and singer Sheryl Lee Ralph helped kick off Super ...

One of the first things one sees – the Black national ... and the other people – I don't know which one they get to sing. Maybe they'll get their own. But if there are two national anthems ...

Singer-songwriter and music producer Ledisi and American Sign Language translator Otis Jones perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at Super ... the Super Bowl's first-ever pre-game poem honoring ...

Emmy Award Winner Sheryl Lee Ralph, American Sign Language performer Justina Miles open Super Bowl LVII with "Lift Every Voice and Sing ... the Super Bowl's first-ever pre-game poem honoring ...

The Emmy-winning actress and singer, 66, performed the hymn "Lift Every Voice and Sing" ahead of Super Bowl ... Bills safety Damar Hamlin and the first responders who saved his life after he ...