Del Matthews, MLB's Senior VP of Baseball Development, creates pathways for HBCU athletes through innovative programs and the Swingman Classic event.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Deacon Marvin Brannon of New Caledonia Baptist Church led an opening prayer, followed by stirring performances of the national anthem and “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” often referred to as the Black ...