The whole world celebrates.” Jacksonville native James Weldon Johnson wrote the song originally as a poem. His brother, John Rosamond added music to it years later. It depicts overcoming slavery ...

It was 125 years ago that 500 Jacksonville school children at Edwin M. Stanton School first performed “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing" in celebration of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday on ...

Jaguars receiver Chris Conley takes us through the little-known black history of Jacksonville, Florida, and the story of its most notable native son, James Wheldon Johnson, author of the iconic ...