The song was performed for the first time in 1900, not long after it was written. The NAACP dubbed “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as the Black national anthem in 1919.

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 ...

There might not be a more polarizing pre-event song these days than “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is also referred to as the “Black National Anthem.” The MAGA crowd tends to hate it ...

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.

The 2025 NFL Draft kicked off in Green Bay with a performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by a Milwaukee choir, the James Weldon Johnson Foundation’s “National Hymn Choir”. The choral ...

“Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty,” goes the lyric written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother J. Rosamond ...

It’s at 11 a.m. on Sunday at Second Baptist Church on East Commerce Street, and that means La Faye Duren is in command of the church’s towering pipe organ. Clothed in a white robe with a red ...

Cherry Street Music, the chamber music program of The Allen Center presents Lift Every Voice: A Juneteenth Musical Celebration featuring the Howard Gospel Choir of Howard University (HGC), with a ...

Her Soul, Her Sound takes the GMT stage to perform Lift Every Voice and Sing.

ALBANY – An annual music tradition that has grown from being held in a small church to nearly filling the Albany Municipal Auditorium will be back this week with the 10th anniversary edition of ...

Musician Joe Watts performed “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” written by its downtown park's namesake James Weldon Johnson on February 12, 2025, at the park.