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

For five years the “Black ... include the anthem has been a point of controversy. Some people who may not be familiar with the anthem should know its rich history. James Weldon Johnson, civil ...

At just 16 years old, Gabrielle "Gabby" Johnson of Normal has had the honor of singing the the Black national anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," at multiple local events.

"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 ...

NORMAL — At just 16 years old, Gabrielle "Gabby" Johnson of Normal has had the honor of singing the Black national anthem ... The song was written by James Weldon Johnson in 1899 and his ...

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), ...

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 ...

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. Jame’s brother John Rosamond Johnson ...

“Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn known by many as the “Black national anthem,” was written in 1899 by James Weldon Johnson, who later bought a home and writing cabin off Alford Road in Great ...