Ledisi was backed by a choir of local high school students as she sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — the song widely regarded as the Black national anthem. The R&B singer stood spot-lit on a ...

The account End Wokeness wrote: "'Black National Anthem' is a racist relic left over from the BLM era. Get rid of it." R T, a media personality: "Just muted the Black National Anthem. There's one ...

The song “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, often called the “Black National Anthem,” has been a fixture ... has a Grammy win for Best Traditional R&B Performance for ‘Anything For You.’ ...

A Black Lives Matter sign is displayed on the court as Los ... He has not played in the NFL since kneeling during the ...

While some have adopted the song as a “Black National Anthem,” the Library of Congress copyrighted ... classical, gospel, opera and R&B,” wrote Janelle Harris Dixon in Smithsonian Magazine. Download ...

Don’t ever doubt the OG. When Bun B began revealing the performers for his “Birthday Bonanza” at RodeoHouston, some fans were puzzled at the seemingly random assortment of names. Old-school R&B acts ...

Meanwhile, there is one thing that "The Star-Spangled Banner," the U.S. national anthem, and "Lift Every Voice and Sing," the "Black national anthem," have in common, Warfield said. They're both ...

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), ...

Grammy award-winning singer Ledisi, a New Orleans native, delivered a powerful rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — widely known as the Black national anthem — during the pregame ...

The NFL has yet again decided to desecrate the sacred American sport of football, a sport that has united Americans for decades, by playing the divisive Black national anthem before the Super Bowl.

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 ...