On Saturday, July 14, 1945, Versailles was celebrating as it had not done in years. But the carefree spirit of some clashed ...

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 ...

City Council Members, State Representatives, and the Governor of Connecticut all gave remarks recognizing Juneteenth. Interspersed between speakers were performances, including the Black national ...

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 ceremony began with Mira Costa graduate Jackie Beupre singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the Black National Anthem.

“Lift Every Voice and Sing,” observed as the Black national anthem, was sung by Ja’Kyla Culver. The class also heard from Princess Dumbuya, FHS’s first Poet Laureate.

One of the most successful players in Major League Baseball was born in Jefferson County on May 6, 1931.Willie Mays, "The Say Hey Kid," started his career with the Birmingham Black Barons at Rickwood ...

“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.

WASHINGTON (BP) – 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 ...

Also in attendance was Manhattan Beach’s first Black Mayor, Mitch Ward, who oversaw renaming the park to Bruce’s Beach in 2006. The ceremony began with “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the Black National ...

“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 ...