But on his new album, "The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy," he’s still singing about folks in neglected places who feel ...

James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a hymn, then adopted as a ...

The school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children.