The Massachusetts-based James Weldon Johnson Foundation, named after the poet, civil rights activist, and diplomat himself, organized the performance. In an interview April 27, foundation ...

Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first ...

Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan sit side by side on the Mount Rushmore of great North American songwriters. Their poetry and ...

Poet laureate Gwendolyn Brooks put the same thought in these terms: “we jazz June/we die soon,” she wrote in her seminal poem ...

It’s a moving tribute that converses with history’s resonances while moving forward in time. A contextualizing note and lyrics to “Lift Every Voice and Sing” conclude. Ages 4–8.

At each rehearsal, students can also be assigned jobs: “techie,” who runs the screen that displays the lyrics ... The group sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as part of Black Youth Mental ...

There were no gospel renderings of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Jones’ event included a poem titled “She Rose,” a tribute to pioneering Black women like her and Green. Singer Kennedy ...

Baraka paused to listen to the words of encouragement ... That was followed by the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a song penned in 1900 that is known as the Black National Anthem and ...

I don’t need Sunday’s Hallmark holiday to remember the Mother of all Coaches. She knew how to get the best out of me, which I ...