A timely song as Abe Lincoln's birthday approaches (12 Feb. I hadn't realised that this song is seen as an African American National Anthem to replace the Star Spangled Banner. See Denise Oliver Velez' article at https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/3/1830202/-Lift-Every-Voice-and-Sing-for-Black-History

The article includes a lot of video links giving various treatments of the song.
"James Weldon Johnson was one of the key figures in the history of civil rights struggles in the U.S., and was a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which adopted Lift Every Voice as the 'Negro National Anthem' in 1919."