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We’re still speaking in rooms he built.

Before there was a Harlem Renaissance movement, there was a blueprint. In this episode, we examine James Weldon Johnson — poet, diplomat, attorney, NAACP leader, and co-writer of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” But more than titles, Johnson engineered something deeper: He architected the modern Black intellectual voice. From writing the Black National Anthem with his brother John Rosamond Johnson, to leading the NAACP after W.E.B. Du Bois, to publishing The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Johnson helped redefine how Black identity was expressed, protected, and elevated in America. This isn’t just history. This is infrastructure. Because before a movement speaks — someone has to build the microphone. And James Weldon Johnson built it.