Click here to create your personal news page. The news that appears on James Weldon Johnson will appear there and be constantly updated. You can then modify the page, share it with your friends, or export it and have it appear elsewhere.
You can also create a personal news page and follow the news that interests you by clicking on the tab labelled 'New page'.
I am not taking the “last train to Jacksonville,” but I am heading to the River City for the A. Philip Randolph Institute’s 39th National Education Conference. APRI was co-founded by the legendary labor leader and Bayard Rustin. Randolph’s courageous efforts on behalf of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, which he founded, lifted tens of thousands of black families into the middle class. The...
I read a piece in National Review by Jay Nordlinger about the jazz singer Renee Marie who substituted the national anthem with what is known as "the Negro national hymn" at a ceremony in Denver where the mayor gives a...
Filed under: More Than Words , Lifestyle Black Voices Blogs : By Linda Villarosa, Special to BlackVoices.com Several years ago, I sat in front of my computer and began writing a novel. The theme was "passing." In college, I devoured novels by Charles Chesnutt, Nella Larsen and James Weldon Johnson. I was... Read more
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Huffington Post - Heaven only knows what black Denver singer Rose Marie was thinking when she stood at the microphone and belted out the lyrics of the black national anthem instead of the agreed on Star Spangled Banner. The event was Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s annual state of the city address and confab. [...]
And, the laughs continue!! In 1899, James Weldon Johnson penned the words to a song that is near and dear to the hearts of most any African-American, Lift Every Voice and Sing. It is a song that stirs my soul...
PHILADELPHIA -- As a child growing up in the 1940s, Charles Blockson was once told by a white teacher that black people had made no contributions to history.
By Michael Levenson Globe Staff JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- To mark the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday today, Mitt Romney delivered a tribute at a petroleum company and then shook hands with African-American families at an MLK-day parade. King showed in...
I was in Cambridge last weekend and had a crash course in history at the NAACP Civil Rights School hosted by Harvard Law School. Vic Bulluck, executive director of the NAACP Hollywood Bureau, told me the civil rights school is...
