JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A celebration to honor the anniversary of the hymn "Lift Every Voice and Sing" written by Jacksonville-born writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson was held at ...

A choir of Milwaukee singers performed the song, originally named "National Hymn," to help open the 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay last week. The Massachusetts-based James Weldon Johnson Foundation ...

Here's how the song written by two brothers– James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson– came to be known as The Black National Anthem.

A man works to create more rail trails, while a couple restores the cabin of writer and early civil rights figure, James Weldon Johnson Share Updated: 8:20 PM EDT Oct 8, 2024 Infinite Scroll Enabled ...

It is the cabin where Harlem Renaissance poet and NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson did his writing when he was in the Berkshires. It was where he found peace nestled in a hemlock grove. Now a ...

Performance Today James Weldon Johnson January 17, 200512:00 AM ET By Fred Child ...