"The Gift to Sing" was published in James Weldon Johnson's book "Fifty Years & Other Poems" (The Cornhill Company, 1917). James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Fla., on June 17 ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. In 1927, the year before my grandmother was born, James Weldon ...

The James Weldon Johnson Foundation ... including collections of his poetry and political writings and a reissue of his memoir, "Along This Way." Wilson is planning a collection of letters ...

It shows six different gardens, planted trees, and an updated stage, and there will be a poet walk to celebrate James Weldon Johnson’s poetry. “Right now, we’re at 60% of that design.

Happy birthday, James Weldon Johnson: Locals reflect on the ‘Lift ... “A true Renaissance man, Johnson was a novelist and poet, a songwriter, an educator, an attorney and a diplomat," Talbot ...

James Weldon Johnson, a Black poet and an early executive secretary of the NAACP, once said Cedar Rapids native Carl Van Vechten “has done more than any white man in America to publicize Black a ...

James Weldon Johnson, who was 67 at the time ... The song, which will be played before NFL games in September, started as a poem Johnson wrote in 1900 and was first recited by students at the ...

Jonathan Gill, author of the book, Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Villages to Capital of Black America, talked about James Weldon Johnson, a poet, songwriter, author, educator ...

Learn more. State and local political leaders are working to memorialize the life and legacy of poet and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson, who was killed in an accident in Wiscasset in 1938.