WASHINGTON -- "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," a civil rights hymn that speaks to the faith and resilience of African Americans, was sung for the first time in 1900 at the height of segregation and ...

The Best of AJC Black History Month: This story originally ran on Feb. 1, 2018, as part of AJC Sepia’s Black History Month Series. Every morning, the kids at the Johnson Learning Center stand up and ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Black national anthem was born more than a century ago, but the popular hymn within the African American community called “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has resurrected a beacon of ...

Strings and wood become harp and drum accompanying cellist Abel Selaocoe's chants and throat singing in his new album, Hymns of Bantu, out this month. It's just one of the many ways he makes alchemy ...

The Black national anthem was born more than a century ago, but the popular hymn within the African American community called “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has resurrected a beacon of hope during ...

It was one of those Moments … the kind of moments you are lucky to have every once in a rare while as a performing musician. Funny enough, it came not at a performance, but at a rehearsal. And really, ...

An African American musical group in Michigan that's been singing spirituals since the Civil Rights era is about to give its final concert. A choir in Michigan's been keeping the tradition of African ...

LOS ANGELES - The Black national anthem was born more than a century ago, but the popular hymn within the African American community called “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has resurrected a beacon of hope ...

LOS ANGELES — The Black national anthem was born more than a century ago, but the popular hymn within the African American community called “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has resurrected a beacon of hope ...