Dozens of hymn choirs are expected to gather and sing Sunday in Rock Hill at a Black History Month celebration of the music. The event is at 4 p.m. at the Kenneth Monroe Transformation Center of the ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The national anthem plays every year before the Big Game. But it wasn’t until more recently that another song, “Lift Every Voice” — known as the Black national anthem — ...
Many know the song performed at the NFL Draft as the 'Black national anthem.' But it's so much more.
It's a song with a moniker — the "Black national anthem" — that stirs emotions throughout the U.S. But few people know that "Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson, ...
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WASHINGTON — The Howard University Choir has been tapped to perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing," also known as the Black national anthem, before the first game of the NFL season for the Washington ...
Gwen Davis sings at Berean Baptist Church in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (Fiona Murphy/Religion News Service via AP) NEW YORK (RNS) — On Sunday ...
LAYERED LIKE A SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HAS LONG HELD THE POWER TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER. FOR, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, BOSTON IS REPLETE WITH GOOD MUSIC. I’M NOT ONLY FROM THE UNIVERSITY, BUT MANY OF THE ...
Many know the song performed at the NFL Draft as the 'Black national anthem.' But it's so much more.
"Lift Every Voice and Sing," often called the "Black national anthem," was performed at the 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay. The song, written by James Weldon Johnson to honor Abraham Lincoln, has been ...
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