James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of
the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full
spectrum of struggle and success. In "God's Trombones," one of his most celebra
ted works, inspirational sermons of African American preachers are reimagined as
poetry, reverberating with the musicality and splendid eloquence of the spiritu
als.
