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.

Madison celebrates a Black community still rising The 36th annual Juneteenth celebration in Madison recognizes liberation and resilience during the holiday's 160th anniversary of freedom.

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 ...

The Museum of the Bible held a symposium to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Black National Anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," written by James Weldon Johnson. The event featured musical ...