Young writers have a little more time to sign up for the 2026 James Weldon Johnson Young Writers Festival.

GREAT BARRINGTON — It’s been a decade-long passion project to elevate the historic contributions of a Black artist by preserving his writing cabin and, eventually, the land around it. Now, it's ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - James Weldon Johnson wrote these words in a poem that later became the Black national anthem. "Lift every voice and sing. 'Til earth and heaven ring." Johnson was an author, an ...

A group of young men in Jacksonville, Florida, arranged to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday in 1900. My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be sung at the exercises. I wrote the ...

James Weldon Johnson : O black and unknown bards ; Go down death (a funeral sermon) -- Paul Laurence Dunbar : Dawn ; Compensation ; The debt ; Life ; My sort o' man ; The party ; A song ; Sympathy ; ...

Cover title: James Weldon Johnson, author. A biography of the author, civil rights leader, and co-founder of the NAACP who blazed a trail for racial equality and human rights through his songs, poems, ...

Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long, illus. by Xia Gordon. Atheneum, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-6659-0278-6 A “man of words” envisions a silent demonstration in this moving account of the Silent Protest ...

A biography of James Weldon Johnson whose career included music, poetry, and public service. Includes a visualization of his poem The creation, with a reading by Raymond St. Jacques. Johnson, most ...