The performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" by Ledisi and a chorus of New Orleans students stirred audiences. It also ...

Before 'The Star Spangled Banner' was the national anthem, 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' was the Black national anthem. This ...

Grammy-winning artist and New Orleans native Ledisi will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" ahead of the Super Bowl.

Everybody wrote them back then. Black writers as well as white. But probably only a Black lyricist, like James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), would have dignified the song's heroine by saying she was ...

The R&B singer stood on a platform in a billowing white dress, backed by a choir ... originally penned by James Weldon Johnson with music by his brother John Rosamund. The song reflects the ...

The 52-year-old wore all white and was joined by 125 New Orleans ... Originally penned as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in 1900, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was set to music ...

She has performed at the White House and the Kennedy Center ... "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics written by James Weldon Johnson. The hymn is also known as "The Black National ...