The Black National Anthem is a tribute to the struggle against the laws and social racism directed at people’s skin color and lack of class privilege.

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), ...

Teresa Gipson sang "Lift Every Voice and Sing," known as the Black National Anthem.

At just 16 years old, Gabrielle "Gabby" Johnson of Normal has had the honor of singing the the Black national anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," at multiple local events.

No one will judge you,” IN UNISON director and the evening’s conductor Kevin McBeth told the audience after the show’s opening performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” “Although if ...

The song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was first performed in 1900 ... When Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner,” he wasn’t thinking of one racial group or one political ...

Also - the NAACP adopted “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as the Black anthem in 1917, fourteen years before “The Star-Spangled Banner.” - Jack Rowlands, Englewood Does Rep. Mike Turner despise ...

Banner rose to fame with hits like ‘Like ... Philharmonic Society choir will sing ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ and the National Anthem. The CAU Philharmonic Society is one of the nation ...

St. Katharine Drexel Parish in Dorchester, hub of the Archdiocese of Boston's Black Catholic community, hosted a Mass in honor of Black History Month on Feb. 23. The Mass was celebr ...