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

Little things — like a song. "Lift Every Voice and Sing ... It was dubbed "The Negro National Anthem" by the NAACP in 1919. Which is 12 years before "The Star-Spangled Banner" was designated ...

On this day 125 years ago the Black National Anthem was first performed, written by James Weldon Johnson and with music ...

(Atlanta News First) - The Black National Anthem has become ... composed the music for the lyrics. A choir of 500 schoolchildren at the segregated Stanton School, where James Weldon Johnson was ...

Ledisi, who is a Grammy Award-winning singer cum songwriter, delivered her rendition of Lift Every Voice and Sing at the Super Bowl today, sparking a frenzy on social media.

Before the game even starts, we will have the national anthem, "America the Beautiful ... he was asked if he only had one song to listen to for the rest of his life, and how he speaks about ...

Who lip-synched the national anthem at the Super Bowl? Who had the longest performance? Who messed up the lyrics? Find out here ... synching to a version of the song she had pre-recorded, ABC ...

Jon Batiste, the multi-talented musician known for his impressive career including an Academy Award and five Grammys, will perform the national anthem at Super Bowl LIX. With a background in ...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" has a short Super Bowl history, but the song itself ... as the Black national anthem. "At the turn of the 20th century, Johnson's lyrics eloquently captured the solemn ...

Imagine a packed stadium, the roar of the crowd swelling as the national anthem plays. But instead of voices raised in song, all you can ... it lacks lyrics for its people to sing to.