Explore the significance of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' at the 125th anniversary symposium, highlighting its cultural and ...

VocalEssence has revealed the performances for its 57th concert season. The seven concerts in the 2025-2026 season show the global reach of VocalEssence as an organization. Learn more and see how to ...

At age 5, Aquil Sudah first heard the “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” or as he prefers to call it, the Black National Anthem. The hymn, written by James Weldon Johnson and composed by J. Rosamond Johnson ...

This issue came to a head around five years ago in James Weldon Johnson Park, which was then Hemming Park, during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of George Floyd’s ...

The school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the iconic Pillars of Creation and the view is spectacular! Travel 6,500 ...

Celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Black National Anthem with an immersive experience at the Museum of the Bible in ...

Detroit NAACP 70th Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner Calls for Urgency, Action, and Power in the Hands of the People ...

Set against the religious calling of God and pledge for freedom, James Weldon Johnson first penned the poem in Jacksonville, Florida to commemorate President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. He later ...

“I view Judy as a generational president,” said Jeffrey Flaks, president and CEO of Hartford HealthCare. “I’ve had a ...