"Lift Every Voice and Sing" has a short Super Bowl history, but the song itself has been around since 1900, when it was first performed by a choir of 500 schoolchildren in Jacksonville, Florida.

The song was first performed for the public by a choir of 500 students from the Stanton School in Jacksonville, Fla. Booker T. Washington endorsed “Lift Every Voice and Sing” in 1905 ...

Students featured in the choir are from 12 area high schools ... Ledisi performs "Lift Every Voice and Sing" with New Orleans high school students ahead of Super Bowl CHECK OUT WDSU:Get all ...

Some right-wingers charged that the performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" ahead of the Super Bowl promoted "segregation.

“Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn known by many as the “Black national anthem ... Singer and songwriter Ledisi, with a choir of 125 New Orleans school children, performed the hymn during the pregame ...

(Gray News) - R&B singer Ledisi led the opening of the 2025 Super Bowl with a jaw-dropping performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which ... was assisted by a choir of 125 high school ...

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.

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

Since 2021, pregame ceremonies for football’s biggest night have included a performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a hymn penned in 1899 by James Weldon Johnson. Mr. Johnson was a civil rights ...