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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Marni joined Newsweek in 2024 from Frasers Group and had previously written ... National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is often referred to as the Black national anthem.

(Atlanta News First) - The Black National Anthem has ... was a hymn written as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in 1900, according to the organization. His brother, John Rosamond Johnson, ...

Ahead of Super Bowl 59, here is everything you need to know about the black national anthem. Written in late 1899 by scholar and poet James Weldon Johnson, ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ was ...