* Lift Every Voice ( Blue Note, 1969 )

Every summer, the cities of Hancock and neighboring Houghton host a festival known as " Bridgefest ," to commemorate the building of the Portage Lake Lift Bridge.

* Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice ( Simon and Schuster: 1998 )

From this point on he was credited as both screenwriter and director for most of his films, including The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, Miracle on 34th Street, Apartment for Peggy, Chicken Every Sunday, The Big Lift, For Heaven's Sake, Little Boy Lost, The Country Girl, and The Proud and Profane.

" Lift Every Voice and Sing " — often called " The Negro National Hymn ", " The Negro National Anthem ", " The Black National Anthem ", or " The African-American National Anthem "— is a song written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson ( 1871 – 1938 ) and set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson ( 1873 – 1954 ) in 1900.

" Lift Every Voice and Sing " was publicly performed first as a poem as part of a celebration of Lincoln's Birthday on February 12, 1900 by 500 school children at the segregated Stanton School.

" By the 1920s, copies of " Lift Every Voice and Sing " could be found in black churches across the country, often pasted into the hymnals.

In 2008, jazz singer Rene Marie was asked to perform the national anthem " National Anthem " at a civic event in Denver, Colorado, where she caused a controversy by substituting the words of " Lift Every Voice and Sing " in the song.

This arrangement of the words of " Lift Every Voice and Sing " with the melody of " The Star Spangled Banner " became part of the titular suite on her 2011 CD release, " The Voice of My Beautiful Country ".

* Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Celebration of the Negro National Anthem, edited by Julian Bond and Sondra Kathryn Wilson

* Video of singing " Lift Every Voice and Sing " led by Alice Walker and Dr. Rudolph Byrd at Emory University

She played herself in the late-90's Pam Grier series Linc's, and at the end of the show accompanied herself on the piano for " Lift Every Voice.

CoCo Brother originally worked at WHTA before landing the show, and in addition, also hosts Lift Every Voice on BET.

* UVa Library: Exhibits: Lift Every Voice: Patriotic Odes

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Many African Americans sing " Lift Every Voice and Sing " in addition to the American national anthem, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", or in lieu of it.

* Lift Every Voice ( ECM, 2002 )

* 1995, she was the inaugural recipient of the National Opera Association's " Lift Every Voice " Legacy Award, honoring the contributions of African Americans to the field of opera.

Johnson is most notable as the composer of Lift Every Voice and Sing which has come to be known in the United States as the " Black National Anthem ".

* Lift Every Voice and Sing, song

Her biggest claim to fame was singing the classic hit " It Takes Two " with Marvin Gaye in 1966 and her later recording of the Black National Anthem, " Lift Every Voice and Sing ".

She made an album for the label, This Is America, which included her popular version of the Black National Anthem, " Lift Every Voice and Sing.

* Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900.

He wrote a Brandeis University publication about coalition building and Lift Up Your Voice, a book about race and religious relations released in 1998.

In 1939, Augusta Savage received a commission from the World's Fair and created a 16-foot plaster sculpture called Lift Ev ' ry Voice and Sing.

Partly because of the success of this recording, " Lift Ev ' ry Voice and Sing " was entered into the Congressional Record by Del.

* Perry, Mark, Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family's Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders, New York: Viking Penguin, 2002.

It was there that two brothers, James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson ( faculty member ), wrote the words and music to " Lift Ev ' ry Voice and Sing " ( known as the " Negro National Anthem "), in 1900.

* " I Will Lift My Voice " ( from Spirit and Truth )

Throughout the years Voice of Prophecy broadcasts were marked by an opening theme song of " Lift Up the Trumpet " performed by the King's Heralds quartet and closed with Richard's poem " Have Faith in God " each week having a new verse written.

" Lift Ev ' ry Voice and Sing " traditionally is sung immediately following, or instead of, " The Star-Spangled Banner " at events hosted by African-American churches, schools, and other organizations.

Kim Weston follows with a performance of the " Black National Anthem ", " Lift Ev ' ry Voice and Sing ".

The camera pans out at the end of the stadium showing several people during the interludes in the film while the speech " I Am Somebody " is being shouted again followed by " Lift Ev ' ry Voice and Sing " as the credits roll.

* " Lift Ev ' ry Voice and Sing ", performed by Kim Weston

Writing for the Village Voice, Robert Christgau gave the album a rating of A -, saying, " Every cut on this clear, consistent, elusive album affords distinct present pleasure.

CrossLeft joined with Every Voice Network and Claiming the Blessing in October 2005 to stage a major conference, Path to Action, at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC.

Other notable songs include " Julian of Norwich ", " One More Step Along the World I Go ", " When I Needed a Neighbour ", " Friday Morning ", " Every Star Shall Sing a Carol ", " The Youth of the Heart " and " Down Below ".

* Let All the World in Every Corner Sing Op. 96 no. 2

The sequence implicitly labeled Baez a limousine liberal, a charge she took to heart, as detailed years later in her 1987 autobiography, And A Voice To Sing With: A Memoir.

In 1987, Baez's second autobiography called And a Voice to Sing With was published and became a New York Times bestseller.

*" Vang Pao Met with Senior State Department Official ," by Sing Bourommavong, Voice of America news, January 28, 2004.

I'm sorry he's not alive to read this, it would make him chuckle ," ( from And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir, 1987 ).

In recent years, Baez has admitted to being more amused by the parody — even including an excerpt in her memoirs ( And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir, published in 1987 ).

In her memoir And A Voice To Sing With, singer and activist Joan Baez recalled that " Traveling across the country with my mother and sisters, we heard the commercial songs of the budding folk boom for the first time, the Kingston Trio's ' Tom Dooley ' and ' Scotch and Soda.

* 2010 – Various artists – The Voice Project, cover of Billy Bragg's " Sing Their Souls Back Home "