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.

It was first performed by a children's choir in ... "I try to sing it with a lot of soul, because I believe the Black national anthem is never complete ... if you don't have soul with it, so ...

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 ...

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 performed in 1900 and officially adopted by the NAACP ...

It was 125 years ago that 500 Jacksonville school children ... Sing” is one of the most acclaimed songs of the African American Civil Rights movement and is often hailed as the Black National ...