Andra Day was selected to perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the 2024 Super Bowl. Pregame performances will also include Reba McEntire singing the national anthem and rapper Post Malone with ...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics written by James ... Country music star Reba McEntire will sing the national anthem, while Post Malone will perform "America the Beautiful." ...

In 2020, the National Football League began instituting the performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” commonly referred ... Lauren Boebert (R-CO) said in a post that the NFL’s choice ...

Aliza covers trending news, often focusing on crime and politics. Singer Ledisi performed "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which is widely known as the Black national anthem, at the start of the 2025 ...

‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ is a hymn written by two brothers in the early 1900s in response to the struggles faced by African Americans following Reconstruction, and the Jim Crow laws that enforced ...

Since 2021, pregame ceremonies for football’s biggest night have included a performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a hymn penned in 1899 by James Weldon Johnson. Mr. Johnson was a civil rights ...

From its beginnings as a birthday tribute to Abraham Lincoln sung in 1900 by 500 black schoolchildren in segregated Florida, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has evolved into the unofficial black ...