The NAACP declared “Lift Every Voice and Sing” its national song in 1919, Perry wrote in her history of the song. It became known as the Negro national anthem, and then the Black national anthem.

These variations are inspired by the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” written by John Rosamund Johnson with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson for a group that was celebrating Abraham Lincoln’s birthday ...

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.

What some might not know is "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was originally written as a poem by a distinguished alumnus of Clark Atlanta University. James Weldon Johnson graduated in 1894 when it was ...