Feb. 25, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Walter White — arguably the most influential Black man in mid-century America and the leader of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955 — has been all but forgotten.

James Weldon Johnson's historic "Five Acres" in Great Barrington just ... York City life during the early days of the Civil Rights movement. Johnson was also an NAACP and Harlem Renaissance leader, a ...

James Weldon Johnson initially wrote it as a poem a year earlier, and his brother John Rosamond Johnson composed the music. It would soon be adopted by the NAACP as its official song.Today ...

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

He did so much for the NAACP. The fact that he succeeded, James Weldon Johnson. One of the things that makes White stand out is because of his color. He was a high yellow individual. - Yeah ...

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), ...

He did so much for the NAACP. The fact that he succeeded, James Weldon Johnson. One of the things that makes White stand out is because of his color. He was a high yellow individual. - Yeah ...

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