A new version of the Super Bowl is coming and NFL fans are eagerly awaiting the country's biggest sporting event and one of the biggest in the world. While much of the spotlight is ...
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 ...
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, ...
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," a song often called the Black national anthem, was sung before the Super Bowl for the fifth year in a row Sunday. This year, Grammy winner Ledisi was given the honor of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Several NBA teams have played what is known as the "negro national anthem" at games during Black History Month thanks in part to the urging of a retired Howard University professor. Eugene Williams, a ...