today in black history

June 17, 2026

Composer and educator James Weldon Johnson, who wrote "Lift Every Voice and Sing," was born in 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida.

Today In Black America

With Brette Dawson

POSTED: March 06, 2009, 7:46 pm

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