Some right-wingers charged that the performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" ahead of the Super Bowl promoted "segregation." ...
The Black National Anthem – “Lift Every Voice and Sing” – is a hymn written as a poem by then NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) in 1900. Jame’s brother John Rosamond Johnson ...
The Black National Anthem is sung in churches ... "Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in the late 1800s. It has since been sung as a hymn.
The hymn, 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' adopted by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is often referred to as the Black ... leader James Weldon Johnson in ...
which is commonly known as the Black national anthem and was originally written as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in 1900. Jamie Squire/Getty See All the Super Bowl National Anthem ...
NORMAL — At just 16 years old, Gabrielle "Gabby" Johnson of Normal has had the honor of singing the Black national anthem ... The song was written by James Weldon Johnson in 1899 and his ...
Dozens of people belted out the lyrics Saturday afternoon in James Weldon Johnson Park ... do not realize that it is an African-American anthem,” McIntosh said of Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing.