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     Tasha Cobbs Leonard - Lift Every Voice And Sing

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     "Lift Every Voice and Sing" Performed by Sheryl Lee Ralph at Super Bowl LVII

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     “Lift Every Voice and Sing“ Alicia Keys performance w/ narration by Anthony Mackie

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2. www.pbs.org · articles · lift-every-voice-and-singLift Every Voice and Sing: Lyrics, Meaning & History | PBS

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   Sep 7, 2013 · Learn about the origin, significance and lyrics of the Black National Anthem, written by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson. Watch a video of the song performed by the Isaac Sisters and a hip-hop remix by Doughboy and DJ Kool Rod.

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   Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954). Written from the context of African Americans in the late 19th century, the hymn is a prayer of thanksgiving to God as well as a prayer for faithfulness and freedom, with imagery that evokes ...

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   Sep 10, 2020 · For more than a century, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has held a powerful place in American history. The hymn is known as the Black National Anthem, but it’s more than that.

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   Authoritative information about the hymn text Lift Every Voice and Sing, with lyrics, audio recordings, PDF files, printable scores, MIDI files, piano resources, and products for worship planners.

   • Author: James Weldon Johnson (1900)
   • Meter: Irregular

   • First Line: Lift every voice and sing
   • Title: Lift Every Voice and Sing

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   Lift Every Voice and Sing Lyrics. Lift every voice and sing, 'Til earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise. High as the list'ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

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   Lift Every Voice and Sing Lyrics. Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty, Let our rejoicing rise. High as the list’ning skies, Let it...

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    Who wrote 'Lift Every Voice & Sing'?

    • “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was written and composed by the Johnson brothers, a pair of influential men from Jacksonville, Florida. James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson worked together their whole lives, first in show business and later in the pursuit of civil rights.

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    What is the song 'Lift Every Voice & Sing' About?

    • Today “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is one of the most cherished songs of the African American Civil Rights Movement and is often referred to as the Black National Anthem. Read the lyrics from "Lift Every Voice and Sing" below. Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Let us march on till victory is won. Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?

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    How do you sing 'Lift Every Voice & Sing'?

    • The phrase “Lift every voice and sing,” for instance, is always sung on an ascending line, as is “Let all creation rise” in the first verse. This “word painting” continues through the second section of the song. As the lyrics tell of the dark past and the blood of the slaughtered, the tune takes a mournful minor turn.

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    Why was 'Lift Every Voice & Sing' important?

    • In the way it aimed to foster a sense of a national Black identity and to create high art out of African American folk material, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” also prefigured the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s, in which Johnson would play a central role.

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    6 days ago · Lift Every Voice and Sing, hymn composed by the American writer and activist James Weldon Johnson and his younger brother, John Rosamond Johnson. Since it was first performed in 1900, it has come to be widely regarded as the Black American national anthem.