Considering how many African Americans are in the NFL, the choice of representation makes sense. We have room for other American-created anthems like the National Black Anthem. There’s no limit ...

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 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), ...

Ahead of puck drop, three-time Grammy Award winner and mezzo-soprano opera singer Isabel Leonard sang the American national anthem, while Canadian singer Chantal Kreviazuk sang the Canadian ...