With more local history made this week — first Black Urbana mayor elected (DeShawn Williams), first Black Champaign Central ...

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), ...

RANDOLPH STAKEMAN, HISTORIAN: Walter, on behalf of the group, wrote to the NAACP, asking them to form a chapter in Atlanta. That letter ended up with James Weldon Johnson, who had just become the ...

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

The song was written by James Weldon Johnson in 1899 and his brother ... first vice president of the Bloomington-Normal NAACP, for the opportunities she has received so far.

Before leaving office, President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud in 1923. Like other dissenters ...

Top rated defensive lineman James Johnson has locked in an official visit with Georgia. The 2026 recruiting cycle is starting to heat up as prospects are locking down their official visits for the ...

James "JJ" Johnson, a consensus four-star recruit from North Fort Myers High School and Cape Coral, Fla., has set dates for where he will be taking five official visits. NEWS: Elite 2026 DL James ...

LeBron James shared a heartfelt reaction to the Wayan comedy family's speech at the NAACP Image Awards on Saturday. A pop-culture media outlet posted a video of Damon Wayans and Marlon Wayans ...

Other honorees Dave Chappelle was to be honored with the president's award for his “thought-provoking humor,” according to Derrick Johnson, NAACP president and CEO. Chappelle will be the first ...