WASHINGTON -- "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," a civil rights hymn that speaks to the faith and resilience of African Americans, was sung for the first time in 1900 at the height of segregation and ...
It's a song with a moniker — the "Black national anthem" — that stirs emotions throughout the U.S. But few people know that "Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson, ...
While a native of Louisiana, country singer Robert Mizzell found his life taking him far beyond the state when he enlisted in the U.S. Army. Traveling the world, he eventually settled on a new home in ...
If there is any lingering controversy surrounding this year’s version of the most unifying American cultural event—the Superbowl—it has nothing to do with football. Rather, it’s the residue of a ...
Later, as the passions of that night passed, I realized that there are times when national anthems and those who sing them ...