R&B vocalist Ledisi performed the black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” ahead of the 2025 ... Louisiana. Getty Images Born Ledisi Anibade Young in Super Bowl LIX’s host city ...

Little things — like a song. "Lift Every Voice and Sing," celebrating its 125th ... Everybody wrote them back then. Black writers as well as white. But probably only a Black lyricist, like ...

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For the last three years, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," often referred to as the Black national anthem, has been performed ahead of the Super Bowl and this year the song will once again be ...

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The song has been featured ahead of four previous Super Bowls. "It is no coincidence that I will be singing the Black National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing at the Super Bowl on the same date ...

On this day 125 years ago the Black National Anthem was first performed, written by James Weldon Johnson and with music ...