Some right-wingers charged that the performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" ahead of the Super Bowl promoted "segregation.
Considering how many African Americans are in the NFL, the choice of representation makes sense. We have room for other American-created anthems like the National Black Anthem. There’s no limit ...
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.
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), ...
It would soon be adopted by the NAACP as its official song.Today “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” is one of the most acclaimed songs of the African ... as the Black National Anthem.