Johnson said the ending lyrics of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" are key to understanding the difference between the usual national anthem and the Black national anthem, which she sang during an ...

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), ...

calling certain lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner” — written in 1814 long before the song became the national anthem — racist and anti-Black.) Gerald Early, professor of African and ...

Why a Black National Anthem? For white racists to say that there ... (1873-1954), wrote and composed the music and arrangements for the lyrics. American history tells us that their has always ...

"America has only ONE National Anthem ... up by Black Lives Matter protesters the day before yesterday. It is not. "More than a century later, we routinely see snippets of the lyrics excerpted ...

TORONTO — Changing the lyrics of a national anthem is often ... ago — almost to the day — Jully Black sang O Canada at the NBA All-Star Game in Salt Lake City, Utah. The R&B singer swapped out one ...

The music of Grammy Award-winning gospel artist and songwriter Donald Lawrence is considered contemporary. But his songs speak to what it has meant to be Black in America since we arrived.  “When ...

calling certain lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner” — written in 1814 long before the song became the national anthem — racist and anti-Black.) Gerald Early, professor of African and African-American ...