Even though many rights for black Americans had been swept away by Jim Crow laws, the first stanza’s lyrics are surprisingly optimistic: “Lift every voice and sing / Till earth and heaven ring ...

The Black National Anthem – “Lift Every Voice and Sing” – is a hymn written as ... and composed the music and arrangements ...

Which one do the Hispanics and the Asians and the other people – I don't know which one they get to sing. Maybe they'll get their own. But if there are two national anthems, that means that ...

Alicia Keys ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing.’ Both teams lined up in endzones ... the hope that the present has brought us. He took his words to his younger brother, a classically trained composer ...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing," often called the "Black national ... it should be a song that all people can love and find their place in the lyrics, in the harmony of the song," Jones said.

Rodney and Erika McLeod, co-founders of the "Change Our Future" foundation, discuss their mission to create a better tomorrow for youth. Focusing on the foundation's education pillar, they share ...

See teams around the NFL stand arm-in-arm during "Lift Every Voice and Sing" before the Week 1 games. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes addresses the media after a loss to the ...

The Emmy-winning actress and singer, 66, performed the hymn "Lift Every Voice and Sing" ahead of Super Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Before the Chiefs and the Eagles took ...