WASHINGTON (RNS) — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a hymn many African Americans of older generations just know. They’d sung it in church, learned it in school and stood for what is dubbed the ...

“Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a hymn written by former NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in 1900, calls for the liberation of Black Americans and is widely known as the “Black National Anthem,” but its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Carolina native and R&B singer Coco Jones wowed crowds with a powerful performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" during the ...

The pageantry of football games continues to grow in recent years, as the NFL created a big time atmosphere regarding its games. One recent addition to pregame festivities at football games is the ...

More than a century after “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was adopted as the “Black national anthem,” Andra Day will perform it to christen Super Bowl LVIII. “Peace and Blessings!!! Performing the Anthem ...

The National Football League (NFL) did not replace the U.S. national anthem with “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a song known as the “Black national anthem,” contrary to some online posts. Both songs ...

Grammy and Golden Globe winner Andra Day will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the Super Bowl on Feb. 11, a distance of a century-plus and thousands of miles from where it was first performed.