The first page of sheet music for “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson. Courtesy of the Library of Congress “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a hymn many African Americans of ...

The Peoria High School graduate and contestant on 'American Idol' and 'The Voice' is returning home to sing at the area's signature fireworks show.

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Were you Seen at the Lift Every Voice: A Juneteenth Music Celebration on June 17, 2025, at the Palace Theatre in Albany?

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 song and soon cherished as an anthem. In its 125th ...