Tag: God's Trombones

• Reading Through the Stacks: 7. Religion and Rhythm

  September 29, 2022

  Poetry, Reading Through the Stacks

  BIPOC authors, God's Trombones, James Weldon Johnson, Poetry, sermons, spiritual

  Reading through the Oakland Public Library’s poetry collection. Today we’re talking about James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was a writer during the Harlem Renaissance period as well as a prominent member of the NAACP. He’s most famous for writing “Lift…