The event began with a spiritual feel as everyone stood and sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing” featuring Rashad McPherson, The Juneteenth Celebration band and singers James Warren, Jazmin McCray ...

Slow-burning closer “April’s Fool” is packed with tricky rhythmic nuances, and the elegant pair of “Body and Soul” and “Lift Every Voice and Sing” dare the musicians to find something new to say with ...

Were you Seen at the Lift Every Voice: A Juneteenth Music Celebration on June 17, 2025, at the Palace Theatre in Albany?

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 ...

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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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.

James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a hymn, then adopted as a song and soon cherished as an anthem. In its 125th ...

The auditorium was brought alive with a variety show of dance, music, and reflections on the struggles for freedom. Shelia Watson led the audience in “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is often ...

Gospel singer BB Winans performs with the IN UNISON Chorus and St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in February 2024 for the “Lift Every Voice and Sing” concert. He will return for a benefit concert ...

The plan also included a chorus leading the Black national anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," and a mix of spirituals, southern gospel and secular songs that traced an arc from bondage to hope ...

Neena-Sinaii Simpo, left, Jamia Lee, and Beverly Free, all of Marin City perform the Black National Anthem "Lift Every Voice and Sing” at the 9th Annual Marin City Juneteenth Festival at Rocky ...