The Black National Anthem – “Lift Every Voice and Sing” – is a hymn written as ... and composed the music and arrangements ...

Even though many rights for black Americans had been swept away by Jim Crow laws, the first stanza’s lyrics are surprisingly optimistic: “Lift every voice and sing / Till earth and heaven ring ...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing," often called the "Black national ... it should be a song that all people can love and find their place in the lyrics, in the harmony of the song," Jones said.

Alicia Keys ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing.’ Both teams lined up in endzones ... the hope that the present has brought us. He took his words to his younger brother, a classically trained composer ...

Which one do the Hispanics and the Asians and the other people – I don't know which one they get to sing. Maybe they'll get their own. But if there are two national anthems, that means that ...

Singer-songwriter and music producer Ledisi and American Sign Language translator Otis Jones perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at Super Bowl LIX. Watch Kendrick Lamar's full performance of the ...

The Emmy-winning actress and singer, 66, performed the hymn "Lift Every Voice and Sing" ahead of Super Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Before the Chiefs and the Eagles took ...

See teams around the NFL stand arm-in-arm during "Lift Every Voice and Sing" before the Week 1 games. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes addresses the media after a loss to the ...

There might not be a more polarizing pre-event song these days than “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is also referred to as the “Black National Anthem.” The MAGA crowd tends to hate it ...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing," written in 1900, is rooted in American history. But its performance at the NFL Draft was not ...

Read full article: ‘Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing’ performed at Super Bowl exactly 123 years after song first debuted in Jacksonville Actress and singer Sheryl Lee Ralph helped kick off Super ...