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Many know the song performed at the NFL Draft as the 'Black national anthem.' But it's so much more.
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," a hymn written in 1900 by James Weldon ...
Many know the song performed at the NFL Draft as the 'Black national anthem.' But it's so much more.
The song, written by James Weldon Johnson to honor Abraham Lincoln, has been performed at NFL events since 2020. A Milwaukee choir of diverse racial backgrounds performed the hymn at the draft.
The James Weldon Johnson Foundation’s "National Hymn Choir" sang "Lift Every Voice and Sing." NFL fans waiting for the draft to begin took it all in before NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell ...
Milwaukee-based choir members from the James Weldon Johnson Foundation's National Hymn Choir will perform "Lift Every Voice," directed by Ben Bedroske. Indiana native singer-songwriter Stephen ...
The NFL recently announced that Milwaukee-based choir members from the James Weldon Johnson Foundation’s ‘National Hymn Choir’ will sing "Lift Every Voice," directed by Ben Bedroske ...
The NFL recently announced that Milwaukee-based choir members from the James Weldon Johnson Foundation's 'National Hymn Choir' will sing "Lift Every Voice," directed by Ben Bedroske, and singer ...
For opening day of the draft on April 24 in Green Bay, Milwaukee-based choir members from the James Weldon Johnson Foundation’s National Hymn Choir will perform “Lift Every Voice,” directed ...
the players eased into impressionistic variations on the classic hymn “Abide with Me” and the powerful “Lift Every Voice,” by James Weldon Johnson and his brother J. Rosamond Johnson. This hymn, the ...
Rufus E.Jones Jr., president of the James Weldon Johnson Foundation, is working to have the song become recognized as the national hymn. Rep. James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat, introduced a ...
The hymn was first written as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in the late 1800s. It was then set to music by his brother, John Rosamond Johnson, and adopted by the NAACP as their ...
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