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 ...

It is featured in over 40 different Christian hymnals and sung in churches all across America, not just during Black History ...

The Martha’s Vineyard Camp Association (MVCA) commemorated Juneteenth with its fourth annual ceremonial flag raising outside ...

The Emancipation Proclamation became law in the United States. It declared that “all persons held as slaves … shall be … ...

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.

Thus, he was pleasantly surprised to watch his alma mater’s Wind ensemble perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at his job on June 12, in what he called “a full circle moment” during the Museum of the ...

By the Hingham Unity Council All are invited to join us this Thursday, June 19, 2025 from 4-7pm for the fifth annual ...

The Emancipation Proclamation became law in the United States. It declared that “all persons held as slaves … shall be … ...

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