Sheryl Lee Ralph performs "Lift Every Voice and Sing" prior to Super Bowl LVII, Feb. 12, 2023, in Glendale, Arizona. Rob Carr/Getty Images The 66-year-old actor-singer hit the Super Bowl stage as ...

In recent years, the NFL began incorporating “Lift Every Voice and Sing” to its regular pregame customs. In 2021, it officially became part of the Super Bowl. While the song’s history with ...

(Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images) “Lift Every Voice And Sing” was written by author, educator, lawyer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson in 1900 as a poem to commemorate the ...

R&B vocalist Ledisi performed the black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” ahead of the 2025 ... Louisiana. Getty Images Born Ledisi Anibade Young in Super Bowl LIX’s host city ...

Andra Day has officially taken the field at the 2024 Super Bowl on Sunday. The “Rise Up” singer, 39, performed the Black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” at the Allegiant ...

Since 2021, pregame ceremonies for football’s biggest night have included a performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a hymn penned in 1899 by James Weldon Johnson. Mr. Johnson was a civil rights ...

From its beginnings as a birthday tribute to Abraham Lincoln sung in 1900 by 500 black schoolchildren in segregated Florida, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has evolved into the unofficial black ...

For the last three years, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," often referred to as the Black national anthem, has been performed ahead of the Super Bowl and this year the song will once again be ...

Ledisi gave a soul-stirring and impassioned performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” during the pregame ceremony at the Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Sunday. The R&B singer stood on a ...

(Photo by JP Yim/Getty Images for The Kering Foundation ... Piñero will sign “America the Beautiful” and “Lift Every Voice and Sing” will be signed by actor-dancer Shaheem Sanchez.