The Black National Anthem is a tribute to the struggle against the laws and social racism directed at people’s skin color and lack of class privilege.

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" has a short Super Bowl history ... lawyer and civil rights activist, set out to write a poem to to commemorate President Abraham Lincoln's birthday, and the piece ...

The Black National Anthem — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — is a hymn written as a poem by then-NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) in 1900. His brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954), ...

In 2020, the National Football League began instituting the performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” commonly referred ... which originated as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson ...

Some right-wingers charged that the performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" ahead of the Super Bowl promoted "segregation.

Nevaeh “Vivi” Vilella, a sixth grader, delivers a moving rendition of ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing,’ amplifying Black History ...