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.

Jacksonville honors James Weldon Johnson's legacy with a free tour of LaVilla, exploring the area's historical significance.

A RENAISSANCE MAN James Weldon Johnson had many careers, and each is worthy of its own story. As principal, he expanded the school to offer high school classes. As a poet, he commemorated what ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. In 1927, the year before my grandmother was born, James Weldon ...

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 a ...

Happy birthday, James Weldon Johnson: Locals reflect on the ‘Lift ... “A true Renaissance man, Johnson was a novelist and poet, a songwriter, an educator, an attorney and a diplomat," Talbot ...

Now, it's actually happening. 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 ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Over the years, James Weldon Johnson’s “Five Acres” estate somehow ... They also wanted a buffer around the cabin where Johnson wrote poetry and his autobiography. Eventually they’d ...

The weekend-long celebration will mark Maine’s first celebration of James Weldon Johnson Day and feature two panel discussions, poetry performances, music, and a documentary preview, according ...

It’s a song derived from a poem written by James Weldon Johnson, a Black poet, in 1900. In 1920, the NAACP, then chiefly a Black organization, adopted the song as “The Negro National Anthem.” ...