In a clip shared exclusively with PEOPLE from the Monday, March 3, episode of 'The Voice,' Alanna Lynise was the final contestant to take the stage for the blind auditions — and she sang a moving ...

Today’s Common Roots Concert offers a celebratory finale to Black History Month. The State Gospel Choir, with special guest, The Voices of Faith, perform from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. tonight at the Church ...

The Black National Anthem — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — is a hymn written as a poem by then-NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) in 1900. His brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954), ...

The music of Grammy Award-winning gospel artist and songwriter Donald Lawrence is considered contemporary. But his songs speak to what it has meant to be Black in America since we arrived.  “When ...

How far and how wide Lift Every Voice and Sing resonated was a surprise to its creator. James Weldon Johnson wrote in his ...

The Black National Anthem is a tribute to the struggle against the laws and social racism directed at people’s skin color and ...

At just 16 years old, Gabrielle "Gabby" Johnson of Normal has had the honor of singing the the Black national anthem, "Lift ...

Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD: ‘I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; he ...

Throughout the month of February, our anchors and reporters have have told a variety of stories featuring triumph, history, ...

Yolanda ‘Yollie’ Copeland is a woman with a mission. The retired sheriff’s deputy, who moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 2013 ...

WILSON PICKETT, ARETHA FRANKLIN, LITTLE RICHARD, LOU RAWLS FOR THOSE WHO LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING. WVTM 13 PRESENTS PROJECT ...

Lift every Voice and Sing” is the theme of a gospel ensemble concert that’s put on by the voices at the University of Mobile.