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

Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” a song often called the Black national anthem, was sung before the Super Bowl for the fifth year ...

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 ...

It was written by James Weldon Johnson ... spread and was later popularized as the Black national anthem. "At the turn of the 20th century, Johnson's lyrics eloquently captured the solemn yet ...

The hymn was performed at this year's Super Bowl in New Orleans by the Louisiana-born singer Ledisi, sparking backlash from prominent right-wing commentators and MAGA, including Charlie Kirk and the ...

Marni joined Newsweek in 2024 from Frasers Group and had previously written for The Sun ... which means he will watch a rendition of the Black national anthem. The performance of the hymn at ...

As an actress, Ledisi appeared in George Clooney’s 2008 movie “Leatherheads,” played Mahalia Jackson in Ava DuVernay’s ...

The song was performed for the first time in 1900, not long after it was written. The NAACP dubbed “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as the Black national anthem in 1919, more than a decade before ...