"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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Now, it's actually happening. It is the cabin where Harlem Renaissance poet and NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson did his writing when he was in the Berkshires. It was where he found peace nestled in ...

James Weldon Johnson and Charles C ... but supporters of giving the honor to Johnson — who was a poet, a diplomat, a civil rights leader, an educator and an attorney — said it's a ...