NEW YORK (AP) — Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil Rights Movement and key architect of the March on ...

Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil Rights Movement and key architect of the March on Washington.

Rustin was the NAACP, so Rustin was surrounded and influenced by leaders including the activist and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois and James Weldon Johnson, who wrote “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” ...

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 ...

The Rev. Dr. Brown explained in a 2019 Church News video that “Come, Come Ye Saints” and the iconic Black spiritual “Lift Every Voice and Sing” are two of his favorites because they tell the stories ...

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.

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.