James Weldon Johnson initially wrote it as a poem a year earlier, and his brother John Rosamond Johnson composed the music.

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics written by James Weldon Johnson. The hymn is also known as "The Black National Anthem." According to the NAACP, where Johnson served as executive ...

The first part of this article published last week briefly outlined the history of Sri Lanka’s national anthem being ... Sinhala language could write down the Sinhala words in Tamil or English ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy has claimed the maternal death rate in Louisiana isn’t as bad if you don’t count Black women.

The world would indeed be a dull place if there were only one or two languages. Only a few of them have more than a million ...

Dobbs emphasis on the women’s vote didn’t help the party among women—and it may have affirmatively alienated millions of men.

Some of the best and richest black musicians in the world ... considered the best writer in Amharic, the national language. Haddis Alemayehu has not written a novel in English.

The list of 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction nominations includes Chubby Checker, Billy Idol, Bad Company, The Black ...

The NFL has yet again decided to desecrate the sacred American sport of football, a sport that has united Americans for ...

The NFL has yet again decided to desecrate the sacred American sport of football, a sport that has united Americans for decades, by playing the divisive Black national anthem before the Super Bowl.