Pregame performances will also include Jon Batiste singing the national anthem and Trombone Shorty ... "[The song] has encouraged generations of Black people that God will lead us to the promises ...

The inclusion of the Black national anthem at last year's Super Bowl made Donald Trump's supporters and allies furious.

Some right-wingers charged that the performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" ahead of the Super Bowl promoted "segregation.

In 1919, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP ... Ritchie Torres said: ‘The Black National Anthem – “Lift Every Voice and Sing” – has been a part ...

The Black National Anthem is a tribute to the struggle against the laws and social racism directed at people’s skin color and lack of class privilege.

The Black National Anthem — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — is a hymn written as a poem by then-NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) in 1900. His brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954), ...

A lot of people loved it ... meaning behind it and a real lyrical feel to it, so when I was singing the Black National Anthem, I was just like, I feel like I'm actually saying something ...

The idea of there being a Black national anthem shouldn’t rub anyone the wrong way. The song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was first ... Because that is what people don’t seem to understand.

The Black National Anthem is a tribute to that struggle and success. Black people did not get full citizenship until the passage of the 1968 Civil Rights Act. That is why we sing the Black ...