At age 5, Aquil Sudah first heard the “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” or as he prefers to call it, the Black National Anthem. The hymn, written by James Weldon Johnson and composed by J. Rosamond ...

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 ...

Marian Anderson rejected fear and anger, choosing music and song as her response to the injustice of discrimination—building ...

An illumination from Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias (1151), showing her receiving a vision ...

“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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Radio 2 DJ Vernon Kay was left in no doubt that the Oasis Cardiff comeback show was epic, with the broadcaster ...

It was inspired by the lyrics for “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by her friend James Weldon Johnson. Savage was discussing ideas for a memorial to Johnson when Carl Van Vechten took this somber ...

In Colony, Damien Dempsey sings of Freddie, who came from the Iveagh Flats, one of a cast of characters from the wrong side ...

Arnalds and Talos had just started collaborating when Talos got sick. A beautiful story of community, 'A Dawning' is an album ...

Disney Theatrical Group's over-bright musical adaptation of the 90s movie comes to the West End in a restless and relentless production.