Why a Black National Anthem? For white racists to say that there should be one national anthem, I say no to their argument. There is nothing wrong with having more than one national anthem. There was ...

His brother, John Rosamond Johnson, composed the music. James Weldon Johnson referred to the work as a "National Hymn," but his work spread and was later popularized as the Black national anthem.

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), ...

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 ...