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 ...

How far and how wide Lift Every Voice and Sing resonated was a surprise to its creator. James Weldon Johnson wrote in his 1934 autobiography that “the schoolchildren of Jacksonville kept singing the ...

It’s at 11 a.m. on Sunday at Second Baptist Church on East Commerce Street, and that means La Faye Duren is in command of the church’s towering pipe organ. Clothed in a white robe with a red yoke, her ...

We’d made it through “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (Ledisi), “America the ... Led by Wendell Brunious, on trumpet and patter, they kicked into the Professor Longhair classic “Go to the ...

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Nevaeh “Vivi” Vilella, a sixth grader at Central Middle School, performed “Lift Every Voice and Sing” in February as part of the school’s Black History Month celebration. Photo by Stuart Sudak Nevaeh ...

Let me sing ... of every longtime sonata you guys in the field artillery are writing all over Europe. It's your song. So listen to it, will you? ♪♪ ♪ When you're down and out, lift up ...

I could not sing. I could ... I heard in my father’s voice, for example, when he realized that I really believed I could do anything a white boy could do, and had every intention of proving ...

There is no charge to attend. “Lift Every Voice is the annual concert that we have to close out Black History Month,” organizer Frank Wilson said. “We invite the entire community.

A few hundred Bostonians gathered in the Strand Theatre in Dorchester on Sunday to celebrate Black History Month with “Lift Every Voice,” an event hosted by the city of Boston. The afternoon ...

“The Voice” season 27 Battles have officially begun! During the Battle Round, contestants face off against another singer from their team. After the performance, their coach decides which one ...