“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.

Still, “Found” is a noble and worthy effort, and Love joins a conversation about the Middle Passage that James Weldon Johnson, in “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” described in sore poetry ...

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

Rashid Johnson on Middle Age, Being Inspired by Amiri Baraka, and What’s at the Heart of His Guggenheim Retrospective In his new exhibition, “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” Johnson revisits and ...

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

Despite its empowering lyrics, Professor Timothy Askew sees a different message in the Black national anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," written by poet James Weldon Johnson.

James Wheldon Johnson was a visionary thinker and Renaissance man whose achievements as an author, lyricist, poet, diplomat, attorney, educator, and civil rights leader left an indelible mark on ...

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 ...