A group of young men in Jacksonville, Florida, arranged to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday in 1900. My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be sung at the exercises. I wrote the ...

Click to open image viewer. A second printing (July 1927) edition of a book of poems by James Weldon Johnson titled God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. The book features eight poems, each ...

A biography of James Weldon Johnson whose career included music, poetry, and public service. Includes a visualization of his poem The creation, with a reading by Raymond St. Jacques. Johnson, most ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — It’s been a decade-long passion project to elevate the historic contributions of a Black artist by preserving his writing cabin and, eventually, the land around it. Now, it's ...

It was 125 years ago that 500 Jacksonville school children at Edwin M. Stanton School first performed “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing" in celebration of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday on Feb. 12, ...