Before 'The Star-Spangled Banner' was the national anthem, 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' was the Black national anthem. This year, it turns 125.
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" has a short Super Bowl history, but the song itself has been around since 1900, when it was first performed by a choir of 500 schoolchildren in Jacksonville, Florida.
Sing Sing also earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song for Like a Bird, written by Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada. Sing Sing has had a major presence in the film awards circuit for ...