WASHINGTON (RNS) — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a hymn many African Americans of older generations just know. They’d sung it in church, learned it in school and stood for what is dubbed ...

Yasmina Porter greets a friend as the Santa Cruz Juneteenth Choir sings “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as the 34th Santa Cruz Juneteenth celebration fills Laurel Park behind London Nelson ...

“Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty,” goes the lyric written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother J. Rosamond ...

“The theme for today is lift every voice and sing in celebration and education and just celebrating our forefathers and mothers that got us this far,” Jamiel Alexander, an organizer, said.

Denton finds the singing of James Weldon Johnson’s "Lift Every Voice and Sing” and the raising of a Juneteenth flag at the Statehouse somehow objectionable.

We’ve got our own national anthem (“Lift Every Voice and Sing”), holiday season (Kwanzaa), Thanksgiving foods (sweet potato pie, please), music (Kendrick Lamar didn’t come up with that ...

A river of music runs it – a few notes from “Lift Every Voice And Sing,” the unofficial Black National Anthem. Like Simmons, Bailey fights the tide of selective historical amnesia.

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The Cleveland Chorale will lead festival goers in “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the Black National Anthem, and local pastor George William-Whitfield of Wesley Temple A.M.E. Zion Church in Akron ...