While "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was not the only song played before "The Star Spangled Banner" on Sunday, many on social media singled out the hymn for criticism, claiming ...

Before LaFace Records and So So Def Recordings, there was Black Swan Records, a record company by Georgian Harry Pace that released music by Black artists for Black listeners.

Black artists, musicians, writers, and reformers flocked to the neighborhood of Harlem in the early 20th century, creating a ...

Congress passes the first Fugi­tive Slave Law. The law made it easier for a slave owner to re-take control of a slave who had ...

Morgan Community College (MCC) announces its academic honor students for Fall Semester, 2024.  Full-time students recognized for honors completed a minimum of twelve eligible credit hours in the ...

(MCC) announces its academic honor students for Fall Semester, 2024.  Full-time students recognized for honors completed a minimum of twelve eligible credit hours in the ...

James Weldon Johnson initially wrote it as a poem a year earlier, and his brother John Rosamond Johnson composed the music.

“Fuze,” the buzzy thriller starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson (“Bullet Train”) and Theo James (“The White Lotus”) has sold in a raft of international territories ahead of the EFM, where ...

Musician Joe Watts performed “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” written by its downtown park's namesake James Weldon Johnson Wednesday February 12, 2025.

In 1886, three brothers – Robert Wood Johnson, James Wood Johnson and Edward Mead ... $1.73 billion the following February. William C. Weldon became the Chairman and CEO of J&J in 2002.

The Discovery Orchestra (TDO), the Emmy Award-nominated and Telly Award-winning orchestra, which has introduced millions ...