Thus, he was pleasantly surprised to watch his alma mater’s Wind ensemble perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at his job on June 12, in what he called “a full circle moment” during the Museum of the ...

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 ...

He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create, and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different ...

The school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children.

Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a hymn many African Americans of older generations just know. They’d sung it in church, learned ...

Explore the significance of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' at the 125th anniversary symposium, highlighting its cultural and ...

The Emancipation Proclamation became law in the United States. It declared that “all persons held as slaves … shall be … ...

The Emancipation Proclamation became law in the United States. It declared that “all persons held as slaves … shall be … ...