Super Bowl, Black National Anthem
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Often referred to as “The Black National Anthem,” Lift Every Voice and Sing was a hymn written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson in 1900.
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Jones performed alongside Green Day, Brandi Carlile and Charlie Puth ahead of Super Bowl LX on Sunday, Feb. 8