Twice a month a group of about 30 Iowa City residents gathered, not to perform but to participate in a time-honored tradition ...

Mrs. Mina Edison loved music and taught piano. She would often have musical guests at the Edison Home. This is an officially ...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" has a short Super Bowl history, but the song itself has been around since 1900, when it was first performed by a choir of 500 schoolchildren in Jacksonville, Florida.

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics written by James Weldon Johnson. The hymn is also known as "The Black National Anthem." According to the NAACP, where Johnson served as executive ...

James Wheldon Johnson was a visionary thinker and Renaissance man whose achievements as an author, lyricist, poet, diplomat, ...