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James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson's "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is one of the most significant hymns in American history. Read more about the genesis of the song and download sheet music published in 1900 and 1921.
What was life like a century ago? These photos offer a glimpse.
Reader Chris Willis said he could relate to my column about three of us aging friends gathering at one of our homes to sip Scotch, puff cigars and solve the problems of our lives, city, the nation and world.
Efforts to honor James Weldon Johnson in Wiscasset and elsewhere in Maine have raised old documents surrounding the poet, playwright, civil rights advocate, professor and consul’s death on the railroad tracks downtown. Meanwhile, the state’s work...
James Weldon Johnson, who wrote the lyrics to “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” was a Maine summer resident who died on U.S. Route 1 in Wiscasset.