At age 5, Aquil Sudah first heard the “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” or as he prefers to call it, the Black National Anthem. The hymn, written by James Weldon Johnson and composed by J. Rosamond Johnson ...

James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a hymn, then adopted as a song and soon cherished as an anthem. In its 125th ...

Islamic conquests from the eighth century replaced Brahmi-derived scripts with Perso-Arabic in Afghanistan and Pakistan, ...

Ancient Indian texts like the Rigveda and Atharvaveda mention foods still eaten today. Barley and ghee were sacred and are ...

Hymns of the Rigveda, English Translation of the Rigveda, 1920. There are four Vedas, the Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda. The Vedas are the primary texts of Hinduism. They also had a ...

Their names used to reverberate through early morning prayers, fire rites, and sacred chants. As guardians of rain, fire, ...

Everybody has a fear. Death. Decrease. failure. enduring pain. And we yearn for one thing in the midst of all this chaos: ...

The three-day South India Veda Sammelan (Vedic conference) commenced at the Sri Venkateswara Vedic University (SVVU) campus in Tirupati on Monday.

In Rigveda, Vishnu is the companion of Indra, the Aryan warlord. There is a story of Vishnu’s three strides. Quoting Aitareya-Brahmana, she writes: “Indra and Vishnu fought with the Asuras.

References to manifestation-like principles appear as early as the Rigveda, a 3,500-year-old Sanskrit text containing hymns that suggest thoughts and actions influence personal destiny. (What are ...