For the last three years, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," often referred to as the Black national anthem, has been performed ...

Kendrick Lamar is headlining the halftime show with special guest SZA. Jon Batiste will sing the national anthem.

Angela Davis led the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture on Monday, in which she praised pro-Palestine activists at Cornell and urged the audience to resist President Donald ...

It's Super Bowl Week and New Orleans is pulling out all of the stops for the big game at Caesar's Superdome on Sunday night, ...

The Origins of ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ James Weldon Johnson wrote “Lift Every Voice and Sing” in late 1899. Johnson’s goal was to write a poem to commemorate the birthday of the 16th ...