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 ...

In honor of Juneteenth, BYU invited the surrounding community to gather at the Helaman Fields on June 19 to foster ...

Several of Detroit’s most prominent Black churches have joined forces with the National Black Empowerment Council to launch ...

Several hundred people gathered at the Edmonds Waterfront Center Thursday for the 2025 Juneteenth at the Beach – Celebrating ...

Grammy Award-winning gospel veteran BeBe Winans had one question when he bid farewell immediately following the IN UNISON 2024 “Lift Every Voice” Black History Month Concert. “St. Louis, can I come ...

The sounds of protest and resistance produced by women are caught in a political contradiction, as Anne Carson’s ‘The Gender ...

Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty,” goes the lyric written in 1900 by ...

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.

The auditorium at St. Brigid’s church swelled with sound Thursday evening as more than 100 people swayed, clapped and sang along to the Black national anthem “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Spirits were ...

It is featured in over 40 different Christian hymnals and sung in churches all across America, not just during Black History ...

Explore the significance of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' at the 125th anniversary symposium, highlighting its cultural and ...

Every scorched cable, nut and bolt will be examined along with the black box to determine why it went down 30 seconds after take-off.