Johnson understood something enduring:
Education is not merely instruction.
It is infrastructure for dignity, leadership, and generational progress.
Learn more at the James Weldon Johnson Foundation.
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#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackHistoryIsAmerican🇺🇸History
#LiftEveryVoiceAndSing
#JohnRosamondJohnson
#JamesWeldonJohnson
This is a stunning composition.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #EarlierWithJoolsHolland
James Weldon Johnson, John Rosamond Johnson & Southern Sons:
🎵 Lift Every Voice and Sing
#BBCRadio3 #JamesWeldonJohnson #JohnRosamondJohnson #SouthernSons
James Weldon Johnson s a young boy
Before he became a writer, diplomat, civil rights leader, and lyricist of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” he was shaped by a family that insisted on possibility.
Learn more at the James Weldon Johnson Foundation. jamesweldonjohnson.org
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In this blog post, author Jamall A. Calloway reflects on IMAGINING EDEN, Black theology, and James Weldon Johnson’s reimagining of Genesis. buff.ly/fHXFYiQ #BHM #BlackTheology #JamesWeldonJohnson #BlackLiterature #ReligionAndLiterature #BlackHistoryMonth @aaads-iraascu.bsky.social
#February12, 1900: at a celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday students at the segregated #StantonSchool in #Jacksonville #FL recited #LiftEveryVoiceandSing” written by principal #JamesWeldonJohnson whose brother #JohnRosamond later put music to woodstockwhisperer.info/2018/02/12/b...
Buchcover mit einem Schwarzweißfoto einer Straßenszene in NYC um 1900, außerdem Titel des Buchs und die Namen von Autor und Übersetzer
COLOR - ein amerikanisches Leben
Es ist #BlackHistoryMonth, deshalb möchte ich noch einmal auf dieses Buch des Bürgerrechtlers James Weldon Johnson aufmerksam machen, das ich übersetzt habe. In allen guten Buchläden #JamesWeldonJohnson #FCKRacism #HarlemRenaissance
As we begin 2026, the James Weldon Johnson Foundation marks two milestones:
100 years of the House and Writing Cabin at Five Acres, and 10 years since receiving 501(c)(3) status.
Legacy isn’t inherited passively.
It is actively advanced.
#AdvancingTheLegacy #JamesWeldonJohnson #BlackHistoryMonth
Why we "Lift Every Voice and Sing" | The story behind the 'black national anthem'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38sxYtHRGGw
#OnThisDayInBlackHistory #JamesWeldonJohnson #BlackHeritageStamp #LiftEveryVoiceAndSing #HarlemRenaissance #BlackExcellence #PreservingOurStory #TheEnglandManor
‘I Hear the Stars Still Singing’ by James Weldon Johnson
#poem #poetry #jamesweldonjohnson
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🎶 On This Day in Black History – November 6, 1900 🎶
On this day, James Weldon Johnson and his brother J. Rosamond Johnson composed the iconic song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” in Jacksonville, Florida.
#BlackHistory #LiftEveryVoiceAndSing #JamesWeldonJohnson #JRosamondJohnson #OnThisDay
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Just finished reading this excellent 1912 #novel by #JamesWeldonJohnson - the account of a young biracial man living in the post-Reconstruction era of America.
#books #booklist #mybookshelf #mybooklist #readinglist
Great speaking w/ Tim Monroe on his "What I Really Want To Talk About" podcast. I talked about #JamesWeldonJohnson: poet, journalist, songwriter, diplomat, etc., including #NAACP leader during the #RedSummer of 1919 and key figure in the #HarlemRenaissance.
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✒️ #JamesWeldonJohnson, #HarlemRenaissance poet, lyricist ("Lift Every Voice And Sing"), #CivilRights activist, and leader of the #NAACP, #DOTD 26 June 1938. #Poetry #Literature
‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’: In the US, the unofficial Black national anthem, celebrates 125 years. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #LiftEveryVoiceandSing #JamesWeldonJohnson #JRosamondJohnson #hymns #civilrightsmovement #BishopDavidDDanielsIII #TheodoreThorpeIII
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#OnThisDay in 1871, #JamesWeldonJohnson, American Harlem Renaissance poet, lyricist ("Lift Every Voice And Sing"), #civilrightsactivist, and leader of the NAACP, born in Jacksonville, Florida (d. 1938).
#RIP 🥀🕯️
Happy Birthday James Weldon Johnson. (RIP) #HappyBirthdayJamesWeldonJohnson #JamesWeldonJohnson #Birthday #RIPJamesWeldonJohnson #RestInPeace #Legend #Legends
Born #OTD 1871. #JamesWeldonJohnson, novelist, essayist, poet, songwriter, diplomat, lawyer, etc. Key official in the NAACP, including during the #RedSummer.
“I will not allow one prejudiced person or one million or one hundred million to blight my life.”
✒️ #JamesWeldonJohnson, #HarlemRenaissance poet, lyricist ("Lift Every Voice And Sing"), #CivilRights activist, and leader of the #NAACP, was #BOTD 17 June 1871. #Poetry #Literature
Meet 2025 Fellow Daonne Huff (@ladydaydayday)!
Daonne Huff is an arts worker, curator, performance centered artist, poet and Black modern flâneuse based in Harlem, NY. Learn more about Daonne at www.daonnehuff.com
#jamesweldonjohnson #artistinresidence #greatbarrington #simonsrock #artists
My City
James Weldon Johnson
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#poems #apoemaday #poem #poetry #poetryisnotdead #poetrygram #poetrycommunity #jamesweldonjohnson #newyorkcity #nyc #manhattan #thebronx #thebronxdoesitbetter #sza #bhm #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory
Es ist immer noch #BlackHistoryMonth. Die Geschichte des Schwarzen Amerika soll gerade ausgelöscht werden. Doch #JamesWeldonJohnson hat diese unsterbliche Hymne geschrieben, die uns allen Hoffnung gibt. #resist www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AsI...
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryIsAmericanUSAHistory #LiftEveryVoiceAndSing
#JamesWeldonJohnson #J.RosamondJohnson
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Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on 'til victory is won
#BlackNationalAnthem #LiftEveryVoice #JamesWeldonJohnson #BlackHistoryMonth #SuperBowl
Thank you #Ledisi for that amazing performance of the #BlackNationalAnthem 🖤🙌🏾Extremely well done 👏🏾 #BlackExcellence #JamesWeldonJohnson #BlackHistoryMonth #SuperBowlLIX
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Let us march on till victory has won!!!!!
#amessage #lifteveryvoiceandsing #blacknationalathem #jamesweldonjohnson #superbowllix #ledisi
Black History Is American History
#BlackHistoryMonth #JamesWeldonJohnson #BlackNationalAnthem
A Jacksonville artist contemplates. Of course he was 50 things in addition to being a renowned poet and songwriter, but you can picture him writing this as one.
Envoy indeed.
#jamesweldonjohnson
#BlackHistoryMonth
#LEVAS125
By way of introducing myself I’ll show some of my work here. “Color – Ein amerikanisches Leben” (The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man) is a novel by the civil rights activist and polymath James Weldon Johnson. #JamesWeldonJohnson #HarlemRenaissance #BlackHistoryMonth
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Um mich vorzustellen, zeige ich hier einige meiner Arbeiten: „Color – Ein amerikanisches Leben“ ist ein Roman des Bürgerrechtlers und Allroundgenies James Weldon Johnson. #JamesWeldonJohnson #HarlemRenaissance #BlackHistoryMonth shop.autorenwelt.de/products/col...
