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 ...

with the Louisiana-born singer Ledisi set to perform the historically significant Black national anthem. Ledisi will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn originally written as a poem by ...

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.