Unlike previous festivals, which saw performers on multiple stages at Metropolitan Park, Daily's Place, Riverfront Plaza, James Weldon Johnson Park and other locations, all of the music this year ...

The Black National Anthem – “Lift Every Voice and Sing” – is a hymn written as a poem by then NAACP leader James Weldon ... Johnson (1873-1954), wrote and composed the music and ...

The song was written by James Weldon Johnson in 1899 and his brother, John Rosamond Johnson, composed the music for it in 1900. It was first performed by a children's choir in February of that ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The City of Jacksonville held a public conference Tuesday, announcing intentions to seek and secure a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for the LaVilla ...