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

The NFL Draft started with the performance of the Black national anthem on Thursday night. But the song divided fans on ...

NFL Draft kicked off in Green Bay with a performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by a Milwaukee choir, the James Weldon Johnson Foundation’s “National Hymn Choir”. The choral rendition, backed ...

The country singer-guitarist reinvented the infamously difficult "Star-Spangled Banner" with just his acoustic guitar and ...

They done gentrified the Black national anthem,' one furious social media ... the days when the NFL Draft was just the NFL Draft.' The performance of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' ahead of the ...

The NAACP began to promote "Lift Every Voice and Sing" as the Black national anthem in 1917. Ward was the No. 1 pick in the draft after a solid performance with the Miami Hurricanes in his final ...

Dressed in a black hip-length coat ... a deep-voiced reading of the National Anthem while accompanying himself on acoustic guitar. Wilson began the performance by playing the song’s familiar ...