The NFL will play Lift Every Voice and Sing" before each game during Week 1, a person familiar with the discussions told The Associated Press. There's always been the controversy about race being ...

It’s been thirty years since Whitney Houston performed the national anthem at the Super Bowl in 1991 and yet her performance — the voice, attitude, the subtle message she conveyed with it ...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" was first performed in 1900, at a segregated school in Jacksonville, Fla., by a group of 500 children celebrating the anniversary of the birth of President Lincoln.

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" was written as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson, and set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson in 1899. It was first performed in 1900 at a ...

FILE - In this April 18, 2020 file photo Harlem resident who goes by the name New World Warrior, center, plays "Lift Every Voice And Sing" on his trumpet at one of multiple stops along 125th ...

Listen to the harmonies of Lift Every Voice and Sing, the music, the lyrics. That is why it has endured for 123 years. And it’s only getting stronger. It’s Black Excellence.” ...

The NAACP dubbed “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as the Black national anthem in 1919. The decision came more than a decade before “The Star-Spangled Banner” was adopted as the national anthem ...

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” was created more than a century ago. But the hymn dubbed as the Black national anthem has resurrected a beacon of hope during recent nationwide protests.