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” has evolved into the unofficial black national ...

Nature, in her bounty, has provided an endless supply of things for the right and the left to argue about. Big things, like the annexation of Greenland. Little things — like a song. "Lift Every Voice ...

Ledisi gave a soul-stirring and impassioned performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” during the pregame ceremony at the Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Sunday. The R&B singer stood on a platform in ...

The power of music to bring people together was on terrific display Sunday night when the budding artists of the Music Academy’s Sing! Chorus — comprised of hundreds of Santa Barbara County youth — ...

Grammy Award-winning artist, composer and producer Jacob Collier has told the BBC that singing together can combat social ...

The Jaffrey-Rindge MLK Day commemoration celebrated the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with music, presentations, and a candlelight sing-along, and will feature a keynote address by Andre de Quadros ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a hymn many African Americans of older generations just know. They’d sung it in church, learned it in school and stood for what is dubbed the ...

NEW ORLEANS — Grammy Award winner Ledisi will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" before the Super Bowl on Sunday, part of a pregame lineup of artists with Louisiana ties. Ledisi has earned ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Let the rejoicing rise. R&B vocalist Ledisi performed the black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” ahead of the 2025 ...

At the Singing Circle in Amsterdam, people with cognitive decline join together to lift their spirits and improve their lives ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Celebrations are underway, marking the 125th anniversary of the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” It’s a song considered a solemn yet hopeful appeal for the liberation of Black ...