From Monday to Friday, James Weldon Johnson Park will host food trucks and local vendors from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to commemorate the park's birthday.

Explore the significance of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' at the 125th anniversary symposium, highlighting its cultural and ...

James Weldon Johnson initially wrote the song as a poem before it was set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson and performed for the first time by 500 school children in celebration of ...

James Weldon Johnson and his brother who wrote the music for National Hymn didn’t have access to Xerox machines. They sent the music they wrote to be printed in New York.

James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a ...

Members of the James Weldon Johnson Foundation's National Hymn Choir perform 'Lift Every Voice' ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft. Tom Pelissero discusses which quarterbacks could be drafted Day 3 of ...

“Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty,” goes the lyric written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother J. Rosamond ...

“Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty,” goes the lyric written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother J. Rosamond ...