Pregame festivities for the Super Bowl included a video recording of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as players from Tampa Bay and Kansas City lined up on each goal line.
The NFL opened the season with the same show of racial solidarity and did it again before the final game.
Both teams went to their locker rooms after the rendition by Alicia Keys.
The league chose “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as an addition to the national anthem for opening weekend and for the Super Bowl after a national reckoning over race sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis.
