But our national anthem has always stood for one thing and ... When Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner,” he wasn’t thinking of one racial group or one political ideology.
The Black National Anthem — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — is a hymn written as a poem by then-NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) in 1900. His brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954), ...
But our national anthem has always stood for one thing and ... When Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner," he wasn't thinking of one racial group or one political ideology.