Once known as Florida Avenue, A. Philip Randolph Boulevard forms the commercial core of the historic Eastside. The street and ...

Black History Month is an opportunity to augment traditional written documents with visual, sonic, dramatic, and multimedia ...

Finally, something worth putting your book down for! Authors and readers from around the country will gather at James Weldon Johnson Park on Saturday, January 25th for the JAX Urban Book Festival.

Ledisi will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn originally written as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in the late 1800s. This powerful anthem, set to music by his brother John ...

Originally a poem written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson, the leader of the NAACP, it was set to music and became a powerful anthem during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

40-caliber handgun near the James Weldon Johnson Houses, located on Park Avenue and E. 114th Street in Harlem. The case remained cold for 17 years until Coleman made the shocking decision to ...

Seven Negro Sermons in Verse” is a book of poetry born again as a theatrical production, a Christian musical with a 50-member ...

And he wasn't the first or last to call it that. Based on a poem by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson, the song was first performed in 1900 by a choir at a ...

Although WashU has numerous traditions on campus, the most widely known and attended are the various cultural shows put on ...

In 1886, three brothers – Robert Wood Johnson, James Wood Johnson and Edward Mead ... $1.73 billion the following February. William C. Weldon became the Chairman and CEO of J&J in 2002.

Originally a poem written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson, the leader of the NAACP, it was set to music and became a powerful anthem during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Sung at ...