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

Before 'The Star Spangled Banner' was the national anthem, 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' was the Black national anthem. This ...

Ledisi, who is a Grammy Award-winning singer cum songwriter, delivered her rendition of Lift Every Voice and Sing at the ...

Singer Ledisi performed "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which is widely known as the Black national anthem, at the start of the 2025 Super Bowl on Sunday. "Lift Every Voice and Sing" has a short ...

Among the song's lyrics is this powerful last stanza ... The Mayor’s African American Advisory Committee also will commemorate Black History Month with an event at City Hall at 10 a.m. Thursday.

There's nothing angry or confrontational in the lyrics. The tone is joyful ... and "Lift Every Voice and Sing," the "Black national anthem," have in common, Warfield said. They're both hard ...

calling certain lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner” — written in 1814 long before the song became the national anthem — racist and anti-Black.) Gerald Early, professor of African and ...