Drawing on centuries of hymnody, the songwriting collective asks the question: “What else could we be singing about?” ...
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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), ...
There is no charge to attend. “Lift Every Voice is the annual concert that we have to close out Black History Month,” organizer Frank Wilson said. “We invite the entire community.
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.
A group of Sing Sing staff were seen protesting on Thursday, Feb. 20, when they were visited by Westchester County Legislator James Nolan, Congressman Mike Lawler, and Assemblyman Matt Slater. "Every ...
A few hundred Bostonians gathered in the Strand Theatre in Dorchester on Sunday to celebrate Black History Month with “Lift Every Voice,” an event hosted by the city of Boston. The afternoon ...
WILSON PICKETT, ARETHA FRANKLIN, LITTLE RICHARD, LOU RAWLS FOR THOSE WHO LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING. WVTM 13 PRESENTS PROJECT COMMUNITY ... ONCE THEY HEARD HER VIBRANT, GROWLING SOUND ON HER SONG HOUND ...
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” was written in 1900 by ... “Keep Ya Head Up” in October 1993. The song’s melody and uplifting rap lyrics caught the hip-hop community off guard, especially ...