It's a song with a moniker — the "Black national anthem" — that stirs emotions throughout the U.S. But few people know that "Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson, ...

WASHINGTON -- "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," a civil rights hymn that speaks to the faith and resilience of African Americans, was sung for the first time in 1900 at the height of segregation and ...

Nature, in her bounty, has provided an endless supply of things for the right and the left to argue about. Big things, like the annexation of Greenland. Little things — like a song. "Lift Every Voice ...

Isn’t it time to think about a new black national anthem? I love “Lift Ev’ry Voice,” it’s a moving song, but it was written in 1900 and chosen by the NAACP to be the Negro National Anthem in 1919, and ...

If there is any lingering controversy surrounding this year’s version of the most unifying American cultural event—the Superbowl—it has nothing to do with football. Rather, it’s the residue of a ...