James Weldon Johnson's "Lift Every Voice and Sing," colloquially known as the Black national anthem, was originally written late in 1899, James Weldon Johnson Foundation president Rufus Jones said.

The hymn was performed at this year's Super Bowl in New Orleans by the Louisiana-born singer Ledisi, sparking backlash from prominent right-wing commentators and MAGA, including Charlie Kirk and the ...

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

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.

"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," a song often called the Black national anthem ... and Sing" was originally written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson, but his brother J. Rosamond, turned it into ...

James Weldon Johnson initially wrote ... Civil Rights movement and is often hailed as the Black National Anthem. Wednesday at James Weldon Johnson's namesake park downtown, the community joined ...

Super Bowl LIX is in New Orleans this year, so many of the artists set to perform are NOLA natives. And that includes Ledisi, who performs "Lift Every Voice and Sing," also known as "The Black ...

"America has only ONE National Anthem ... Everybody wrote them back then. Black writers as well as white. But probably only a Black lyricist, like James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), would have ...