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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?

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” is often called The Black national anthem, and was written by James Weldon Johnson as a poem and later set to music by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson.

Cherry Street Music, the chamber music program of The Allen Center presents Lift Every Voice: A Juneteenth Musical Celebration featuring the Howard Gospel Choir of Howard University (HGC), with a ...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing," written in 1900, is rooted in American history. But its performance at the NFL Draft was not without controversy.

“They done white washed Lift Every Voice and Sing,” another person wrote. MAGA is big mad that the NFL had a choir sing Lift Every Voice and Sing, "the Black national anthem," for Draft Day.

For the past 45 years, La Faye Duren has played the pipe organ at Second Baptist Church, adding a classical flavor to African American spirituals.

After their annual tradition of performing “Lift Every Voice,” which has varied in arrangement and performance styles over the years, the concert paid homage to Black women.

The music of Grammy Award-winning gospel artist and songwriter Donald Lawrence is considered contemporary. But his songs speak to what it has meant to be Black in America since we arrived. “When ...

Why ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ sparks debate — and what its author, who lived in Great Barrington, really intended The performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" by Ledisi and a chorus of New Orleans ...

Then Saturday there'll be another "Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing" Black History Month celebration from noon to 4 p.m. at the park with poetry, music, theater, speakers, food and art vendors.