today in black history

June 17, 2025

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

From The Bottom Up: Segment 6

POSTED: February 11, 2009, 9:16 am

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Dilettante J. Bass and Shareef Nash – Two young brothers making change.

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