"Lift Every Voice and Sing" has a short Super Bowl history, but the song itself has been around since 1900, when it was first performed ... Johnson's lyrics eloquently captured the solemn yet ...

The music employs word painting; for example, the melody reaches its highest note on “rise” in the first verse ... s lyrics are surprisingly optimistic: “Lift every voice and sing / Till ...

(Atlanta News First) - The Black National Anthem has become an important element for the National Football League and its diverse, vibrant communities. “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was a hymn ...

Controversy has arisen again regarding the upcoming performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” that is scheduled ... For example, in the first verse Johnson speaks of “harmonies of Liberty ...

The song was first performed for the public by a choir of 500 students from the Stanton School in Jacksonville, Fla. Booker T. Washington endorsed “Lift Every Voice and Sing” in 1905 ...