It shows six different gardens, planted trees, and an updated stage, and there will be a poet walk to celebrate James Weldon Johnson’s poetry. “Right now, we’re at 60% of that design.

If only from church, most African-American know at least one verse by Harlem Renaissance poet James Weldon Johnson. It’s the one that starts ”Lift every voice and sing,” also called the ...

James Weldon Johnson, a Black poet and an early executive secretary of the NAACP, once said Cedar Rapids native Carl Van Vechten “has done more than any white man in America to publicize Black ...

James Weldon Johnson was a man of many talents. The Jacksonville native was a lyricist, poet, lawyer, civil rights activist, professor, and diplomat. He’s also the creator of “Lift Every Voice ...

James Weldon Johnson had many careers, and each is worthy of its own story. ... As a poet, he commemorated what would’ve been the 91st birthday of Abraham Lincoln with his famous song, ...

Rufus Jones and Jill Rosenberg Jones are working to restore the creative haven of James Weldon Johnson to advance and extend his legacy, as well as to welcome more artists to the space.

In 1927, the year before my grandmother was born, James Weldon Johnson published a book of poems with the intent of preserving the oral tradition of old-time black preachers. Johnson wrote that he ...

Complete Poems by James Weldon Johnson edited by Sondra Kathryn Wilson Penguin, 352 pp., $ 14 Along This Way The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson by James Weldon Johnson Da Capo, 448 pp ...

James Weldon Johnson, lyricist of the "Black national anthem," was killed in an accident in Wiscasset in 1938. Posted February 24, 2022 Updated February 24, 2022 ...

It is the cabin where Harlem Renaissance poet and NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson did his writing when he was in the Berkshires. It was where he found peace nestled in a hemlock grove. Now a ...

The park was originally named City Park before it changed to James Weldon Johnson Park in 2020. “It’s the heart of downtown, so it’ll speak to all that within the upcoming design work ...

James Weldon Johnson, standing behind his writing cabin in Great Barrington at "Five Acres," his summer property off Alford Road. The owners of the cabin, and the foundation they established in ...