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 ...

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 ...

The James Weldon Johnson Foundation, named for the late writer and civil rights leader, does not occupy its own building or even an office suite. Instead, its base is a curiously furnished apartment ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — The bed is disintegrating and there's a hole in the floor. The original windows have continued to break into bits over the years, and so now they're boarded up with Plexiglas. A ...

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” was written and composed by James Weldon Johnson and his younger brother John Rosamond Johnson. They were influential figures in the fields of literature and music as well ...

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