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The All State Choir and Band are pictured during their performance. Six Webster City High School students were among the top musicians in the state who performed at the 79th All-State Music Festival ...

Singer Laurin Talese responded after her rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” ruffled some feathers to kick off the 2025 NFL season. Talese, 43, performed the song, often referred to as the Black ...

At age 5, Aquil Sudah first heard the “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” or as he prefers to call it, the Black National Anthem. The hymn, written by James Weldon Johnson and composed by J. Rosamond Johnson ...

WASHINGTON — James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a hymn, then adopted as a song and soon cherished as an anthem.

WASHINGTON (BP) – James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a hymn, then adopted as a song and soon cherished as an ...

A group of young men in Jacksonville, Florida, arranged to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday in 1900. My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be sung at the exercises. I wrote the ...

Why a Black National Anthem? For folks who say that there should be one national anthem, I say, why? There is nothing wrong with having more than one national anthem. There was a time when African ...

Jacksonville’s most famous song left the voices of Stanton High School students 125 years ago this week, lived in their hearts and ultimately reverberated across the world. How far and how wide Lift ...