A stirring monument in words and music, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” reminds Americans to press on to the “more perfect union” that the U.S. Constitution’s preamble envisioned.

Alicia Keys performed “Lift Every Voice ... He took his words to his younger brother, a classically trained composer named J. Rosamond Johnson, and "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" (as it is ...

The Black National Anthem – “Lift Every Voice and Sing” – is a hymn written as a poem by then NAACP leader James Weldon ...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing," often called the "Black national anthem," was performed at the 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay. The song, written by James Weldon Johnson to honor Abraham Lincoln ...