At age 5, Aquil Sudah first heard the “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” or as he prefers to call it, the Black National Anthem. The hymn, written by James Weldon Johnson and composed by J. Rosamond Johnson ...

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is often called The Black national anthem, and was written by James Weldon Johnson as a poem and later set to music by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson.

Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first Black to win a Pulitzer Prize in poetry.

The Massachusetts-based James Weldon Johnson Foundation, named after the poet, civil rights activist, and diplomat himself, organized the performance.

In his new exhibition, “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” Johnson revisits and reflects on his own archive.

American novel as great titles renewed the art of storytelling and had the power to influence upcoming writers for decades to come ...

It was James Weldon Johnson who wrote the poem "Lift Every Voice and Sing" in 1900. It was his composer brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, who set it to music.

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

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 ...

A man works to create more rail trails, while a couple restores the cabin of writer and early civil rights figure, James Weldon Johnson.

Civil rights leaders first encouraged Spencer to publish her poetry. NAACP field secretary James Weldon Johnson visited her in 1919 (Spencer was an early member of the organization’s Lynchburg chapter ...