Members of the James Weldon Johnson Foundation's National Hymn Choir perform 'Lift Every Voice' ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft. Tom Pelissero discusses which quarterbacks could be drafted Day 3 of ...

Explore the significance of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' at the 125th anniversary symposium, highlighting its cultural and ...

James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a hymn, then adopted as a ...

The hymn’s origins trace back to a segregated school in Jacksonville, Florida, led by activist and author James Weldon Johnson, ... James Weldon Johnson was the school’s principal at the time.

The school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children.

James Weldon Johnson and his brother who wrote the music for National Hymn didn’t have access to Xerox machines. They sent the music they wrote to be printed in New York.

A choir of Milwaukee singers performed the song, originally named "National Hymn," to help open the 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay last week.. The Massachusetts-based James Weldon Johnson Foundation ...

The hymn’s origins trace back to a segregated school in Jacksonville, Florida, led by activist and author James Weldon Johnson, ... James Weldon Johnson was the school’s principal at the time.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A celebration to honor the anniversary of the hymn "Lift Every Voice and Sing" written by Jacksonville-born writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson was held at ...

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 ...

James Weldon Johnson, standing behind his writing cabin in Great Barrington at "Five Acres," his summer property off Alford Road. The owners of the cabin, and the foundation they established in ...