In the second verse of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” Johnson wrote that African Americans had come “to the place for which [their] fathers sighed.” That “place” is obviously much better ...

Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the list'ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

In 1900, NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson wrote a hymn, “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” in celebration of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, with music composed by his brother John ...

Andrews, who studies African American and African diasporic music, was one of a dozen speakers at a daylong symposium on “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” on Thursday (June 12) at the museum.

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" has been part of the Super Bowl's pregame performance lineup since 2021, when Alicia Keys sang the hymn. Subsequent performers have included Mary Mary (in 2022), Sheryl ...

Lloyd Washington knows every note, every verse of "Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing," which the NAACP named the Black national anthem. The song was created in 1900 by brothers James Weldon Johnson and ...

Grammy and Golden Globe winner Andra Day will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the Super Bowl on Feb. 11, a distance of a century-plus and thousands of miles from where it was first performed.

Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the list'ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the list'ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.