La Faye Duren has played the pipe organ at Second Baptist Church, adding a classical flavor to African American spirituals.

Imagine strangers standing and singing hymns together in this fractured political age, but that's what they did when Garrison ...

Nevaeh “Vivi” Vilella, a sixth grader, delivers a moving rendition of ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing,’ amplifying Black History ...

Cn. Dr. Donald Kortright Davis, Professor of Theology at Howard University. With wisdom and conviction, Canon Davis challenged the congregation to face today’s struggles with “a compassionate heart, a ...

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 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), ...

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.

“(Johnson) called it a national hymn,” Jones said. “He was prescient enough to know an anthem could be a roadblock our cause for consternation today.” Jones says the time is right to advocate that ...

If you have an Echo at home and want to get the most out of Alexa, here are all the voice commands you should ... commands is expansive and grows with every new service or device it supports.

There's a pervasive belief in the Netherlands that this unconventional meal helps lift the national mood ... many people eat them every week, sprinkling them liberally onto buttered bread ...

During the second annual Unity Fresno Festival Concert Program held at Roosevelt High School on Feb. 15, 2015, soloist Teresa Gipson sang "Lift Every Voice and Sing," known as the Black National ...