4 Things You Didn’t Know About “Lift Every Voice and Sing”

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), American Writer and Civil Rights Activist, seated Portrait, Doris Ulmann, 1925.

The Black National Anthem has become a hot topic. But according to the James Weldon Johnson Foundation, we still have a lot to learn about the song.

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