Today's Beautiful Music is a moving performance of LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING, hymn with lyrics by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson set to music by his brother, John Rosamond Johnson.

From its beginnings as a birthday tribute to Abraham Lincoln sung in 1900 by 500 black schoolchildren in segregated Florida, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has evolved into the unofficial black ...

In recent years, the NFL began incorporating “Lift Every Voice and Sing” to its regular pregame customs. In 2021, it officially became part of the Super Bowl.

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.

Ledisi gave a soul-stirring and impassioned performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” during the pregame ceremony at the Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Sunday.. The R&B singer stood on a ...

The former does not undermine the latter any more than does “America the Beautiful” — another song performed during the televised pregame festivities that did not attract the criticism or controversy ...