Before the 2025 NFL Draft kicked off at Lambeau Field, country singer Stephen Wilson Jr. performed the national anthem. Wilson, who was raised in Indiana, has carved out a successful career as a ...

Singer and songwriter Stephen Wilson Jr. sings the National Anthem prior to the beginning of the 2025 NFL Draft. Tom Pelissero discusses which quarterbacks could be drafted Day 3 of '25 draft.

It's a song with a moniker — the "Black national anthem" — that stirs emotions throughout the U.S. But few people know that "Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn written in 1900 by James Weldon ...

Jon Batiste, a 7-time Grammy winner who wrote the music for the Pixar film "Soul," will perform as part of Salt Lake’s Red ...

The highest-rated regular-season NFL games each season are usually played on Thanksgiving. That’s traditionally been a day for fans and casual observers to turn on a football game when not eating ...

Before the Tennessee Titans officially selected Cam Ward with the No. 1 pick of the NFL Draft on Thursday night, the Black national anthem was performed on stage in Green Bay. The James Weldon ...

The highly anticipated 2025 NFL draft will begin on Thursday night ... the festivities will feature a national anthem performance from American country rock artist Stephen Wilson Jr. "Honored ...

there were nearly as many fans on social media who were just as confused as they were frustrated by the NFL’s decision. “First. Who??? Second. Why does there need to be a national anthem at a ...

MAGA is big mad that the NFL had a choir sing Lift Every Voice and Sing, "the Black national anthem," for Draft Day. “How in the world did they gentrify ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing?’” ...

The NFL choral rendition of the so-called 'black national anthem' at the 2025 Draft had fans seething. A Milwaukee-based choir, the James Weldon Johnson Foundation's 'National Hymn Choir ...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing," often called the "Black national anthem," was performed at the 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay. The song, written by James Weldon Johnson to honor Abraham Lincoln ...