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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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
As gentrification, declining attendance and pandemic-era shifts reshape Brooklyn’s Black churches, choirs work to preserve music traditions. On Sunday mornings in Brooklyn, nicknamed the borough of ...