James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a ...

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 Johnson ...

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.

Saturday’s show began with “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a hymn known as the Black national anthem with lyrics by Johnson set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond.

Sharon Henderson, interim pastor at Covenant - St. Andrew's United Methodist Church in Worcester, led a collective singing of "Lift every voice and sing." ...

Written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson and later set to music by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a soaring tribute to resilience and hope.

It is featured in over 40 different Christian hymnals and sung in churches all across America, not just during Black History ...

Andrews, who studies African American and African diasporic music, was one of a dozen speakers at a daylong symposium on “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” on Thursday (June 12) at the museum.

Gospel singer BB Winans performs with the IN UNISON Chorus and St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in February 2024 for the "Lift ...