Sheryl Lee Ralph Belts Dazzling Rendition Of ‘Black National Anthem’ At Super Bowl

“Abbott Elementary” star Sheryl Lee Ralph hit the Super Bowl stage for a powerful rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before kickoff. The soaring performance comes on the 123rd anniversary of the first time the song was performed in public, on Feb. 12, 1900, when a choir of 500 schoolchildren at the segregated Stanton School in Jacksonville, Florida, performed it on former President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, according to NAACP. Advertisement “It is no coincidence that I will be singing the Black National Anthem … on the same date it was first publicly performed 123 years ago,” Ralph tweeted ahead… Read Full Article