“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a hymn many African Americans of older generations just know. They’d sung it in
Adelle M. Banks
Adelle M. Banks, production editor and a national reporter, joined RNS in 1995. An award-winning journalist, she previously was the religion reporter at the Orlando Sentinel and a reporter at The Providence Journal and newspapers in the upstate New York communities of Syracuse and Binghamton.
Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, almost half of churchgoers are regular participants in congregations other than
