From its beginnings as a birthday tribute to Abraham Lincoln sung in 1900 by 500 black schoolchildren in segregated Florida, “Lift Every Voice and Sing ... by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938 ...

The Black National Anthem – “Lift Every Voice and Sing” – is a hymn written as a poem by then NAACP leader James Weldon ...

James Wheldon Johnson, author of the iconic song "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Written over 120 years ago, and still relevant today. Rodney and Erika McLeod, co-founders of the "Change Our Future ...