"Lift Every Voice and Sing," written in 1900, is rooted in American history. But its performance at the NFL Draft was not ...

A poetic two-hander that’s now up in a powerfully acted premiere at Penumbra Theatre, “Found” is suffused with metaphors and ...

Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first ...

These repetitions reveal a harrowing truth. Such a portrait is timeless as long as racial inequality far too frequently sinks ...

civil rights leader and poet James Weldon Johnson and musician J. Rosamund Johnson composed “Lift Every Voice and Sing”—the song we now know as the Black National Anthem. One hundred and ...

Members of the James Weldon Johnson Foundation's National Hymn Choir perform 'Lift Every Voice' ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft. Singer and songwriter Stephen Wilson Jr. sings the National Anthem ...

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, with Stewart as soloist, is transformed into a call for climate action at Merkin Hall at Kaufman ...

Even though James was not picked to move on, every single coach ... very difficult song to sing and you sang the crap out of it," Levine said. "But just know that your voice should be in the ...