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, ...

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CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - With just days away from the NFL Draft, local talent is getting ready to take the stage during the opening ceremony in Cleveland Thursday night. The Cleveland Metropolitan ...

Scholars agree the song, endowed with its deep history of Black pride, speaks to the universal human condition Janelle Harris Dixon - Museums Correspondent "The lines of this song repay me in elation, ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A mostly black gospel choir in Utah is bringing a vibrant new sound to familiar Mormon hymns and shining a light on the increasingly global component of a faith that has more ...

Shouts of praise overflowed from the sanctuary of Sardis Missionary Baptist Church in Birmingham as choral members from Alabama's two largest historically black colleges and universities ushered a ...

Gwen Davis sings at Berean Baptist Church in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (Fiona Murphy/Religion News Service via AP) NEW YORK (RNS) — On Sunday ...