For the last three years, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," often referred to as the Black national anthem, has been performed ...

but the song itself has been around since 1900, when it was first performed by a choir of 500 schoolchildren in Jacksonville, Florida. It was written by James Weldon Johnson, who considered the ...

On this day 125 years ago the Black National Anthem was first performed, written by James Weldon Johnson and with music ...

The same can be said of Cleveland's jazz musicians. From ... Pittsburgh drummer James Johnson III has spent the past several years developing his songwriting style—the results of that development can ...

Ledisi will perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as part of the pregame performances at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans.

James Weldon Johnson initially wrote it as a poem a year earlier, and his brother John Rosamond Johnson composed the music. It would soon be adopted by the NAACP as its official song.Today ...