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

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Hazel Dukes, the president of the New York State chapter of the NAACP and lifelong civil rights advocate, died Saturday at the age of 92. Dukes peacefully passed away in her New York City home ...

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 ...

I think the answer to that is quite obvious. Also - the NAACP adopted “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as the Black anthem in 1917, fourteen years before “The Star-Spangled Banner.” ...

Today’s Common Roots Concert offers a celebratory finale to Black History Month. The State Gospel Choir, with special guest, The Voices of Faith, perform from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. tonight at the Church ...

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), ...

Lift every voice and sing with our full special about the unsung heroes of Black history. He not only won that case but also secured a victory in another case at the nation's highest court, ...

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.

There he joined the NAACP and participated in marches there ... “Why is it that the only time you hear the Black National Anthem – ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ – is during Black History Month,” he ...

Johnson said the ending lyrics of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" are key to understanding ... first vice president of the Bloomington-Normal NAACP, for the opportunities she has received so far.