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‘Lift Every Voice and Sing,' the unofficial Black national anthem, celebrates 125 years
WASHINGTON (RNS) — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a hymn many African Americans of older generations just know. They’d sung it in church, learned it in school and stood for what is dubbed the ...
Many know the song performed at the NFL Draft as the 'Black national anthem.' But it's so much more.
"Lift Every Voice and Sing," often called the "Black national anthem," was performed at the 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay. The song, written by James Weldon Johnson to honor Abraham Lincoln, has been ...
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