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 ...

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

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

The Super Bowl this year features the Kansas City Chiefs against the Philadelphia Eagles on February 9, with Ledisi performing 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' as the Black national anthem, sparking ...

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), ...

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.

"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," a song often called the Black national anthem, was sung before the Super Bowl for the fifth year in a row Sunday. This year, Grammy winner Ledisi was given the honor ...

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 ...