The Black National Anthem is a tribute to the struggle against the laws and social racism directed at people’s skin color and lack of class privilege.

The Black National Anthem — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — is a hymn written as a poem by then-NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) in 1900. His brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954), ...

Singer Ledisi performed "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which is widely known as the ... "At the turn of the 20th century, Johnson's lyrics eloquently captured the solemn yet hopeful appeal for ...