
Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer
"Lift Every Voice and Sing"—often referred to as the Black National Anthem—is a song written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson. Johnson was also the first African American chosen as executive secretary of the NAACP and first African American professor at NYU. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/RZxR2xD4ev — PolitiTweet.org