“Lift Every Voice and Sing” within 20 years became known as the Negro National Anthem, in our time the Black National Anthem, and millions of us have sung it standing in solidarity at some ...

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” within 20 years became known as the Negro National Anthem, in our time the Black National Anthem, and millions of us have sung it standing in solidarity at some all ...

Reprinted from Poetry Foundation. A group of young men in Jacksonville, Florida, arranged to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday in 1900. My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be ...

“It was impressed upon me, particularly from the ministers of music and the pastor, that not only did I have to sing the song with a full-heartedness, I also had to memorize all of the words ...

Juneteenth celebrates the June 19, 1865, liberation of the last enslaved U.S. residents, found in Galveston and other areas of Texas. U.S. troops hand-delivered the message of freedom more than two… ...

Bob Dylan’s classic melody, “The Times They Are A-Changin,’” captured a period in U.S. history, the famed 1960s, when protests rang through the streets and echoed through the halls of Congress. A time ...

It's a song with a moniker — the "Black national anthem" — that stirs emotions throughout the U.S. But few people know that "Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn written in 1900 by James Weldon ...

A Milwaukee choir of diverse racial backgrounds performed the hymn at the draft. It's a song with a moniker — the "Black national anthem" — that stirs emotions throughout the U.S.