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.

The Museum of the Bible held a symposium to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Black National Anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," written by James Weldon Johnson. The event featured musical ...

North Las Vegas is set to commemorate Juneteenth with a flag-raising event featuring performances and speeches.

As early as around age 5, Aquil Sudah recalls first becoming acquainted with the 1900 hymn written by James Weldon Johnson and composed by J. Rosamond Johnson “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” or as he ...

We’ve got our own national anthem (“Lift Every Voice and Sing”), holiday season (Kwanzaa), Thanksgiving foods (sweet potato pie, please), music (Kendrick Lamar didn’t come up with that ...

We’ve got our own national anthem (“Lift Every Voice and Sing”), holiday season (Kwanzaa), Thanksgiving foods (sweet potato pie, please), music (Kendrick Lamar didn’t come up with that ...

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Two weeks ago, in the run-up to the release of her ninth studio album, “Something Beautiful,” Miley Cyrus, who is thirty-two and one of the most successful pop stars of all time, revealed, in ...

Palmetto Girls Sing! members sang 10 songs during Sunday’s concert at First Presbyterian Church. Among them was “Sisterhood of Song,” a commissioned piece composed by renowned New Jersey ...