"Lift Every Voice and Sing," often called the "Black national anthem," was performed at the ... all people can love and find their place in the lyrics, in the harmony of the song," Jones said.

Before the Tennessee Titans officially selected Cam Ward with the No. 1 pick of the NFL Draft on Thursday night, the Black national anthem was performed on stage in Green Bay. The James Weldon ...

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 ...

It's a song with a moniker — the "Black national anthem" — that stirs emotions throughout the U.S. But few people know that "Lift Every Voice and Sing ... place in the lyrics, in the harmony ...

The NAACP began to promote "Lift Every Voice and Sing" as the Black national anthem in 1917. Ward was the No. 1 pick in the draft after a solid performance with the Miami Hurricanes in his final ...

They got whites singing Lift Every Voice and Sing? They done gentrified the Black national anthem,' one furious social media user posted. 'That was the whitest "Lift Every Voice and Sing" that I ...

For more than three decades, hundreds of Ohio State University students of color have gathered on the eve of spring commencement each year to be recognized for their academic achievements at the ...

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 ...

Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first ...