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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...