Lloyd Washington knows every note, every verse of "Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing," which the NAACP named the Black national anthem. The song was created in 1900 by brothers James Weldon Johnson and John ...
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, ...