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‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’: A Musical Monument to Freedom
From its beginnings as a birthday tribute to Abraham Lincoln sung in 1900 by 500 black schoolchildren in segregated Florida, “Lift Every Voice and Sing ... Penned by James Weldon Johnson ...
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” should be America’s second national anthem. Here’s why | Opinion
The Black National Anthem – “Lift Every Voice and Sing” – is a hymn written as a poem by then NAACP leader James Weldon ...