"Lift Every Voice and Sing," often called the "Black national anthem," was performed at the 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay. The song, written by James Weldon Johnson ... in the lyrics, in the harmony ...

A Milwaukee-based choir, the James Weldon Johnson Foundation's 'National Hymn Choir', performed 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' ahead of the draft in Green Bay Thursday night. The choral ...

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 ...

Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first ...

"Members of the James Weldon Johnson Foundation’s “National Hymn Choir” perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing,'" they wrote. Many will question why the NFL had to have any anthems performed ...

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 ...