Trinity Music Johnson tackled America’s mid-century afflictions—segregation

Johnson tackled America’s mid-century afflictions—segregation

the shadow of a new war on another continent falls over them

and the galaxy we know as the Milky Way was born

The poetic text describes how it takes a village to raise a child and that all of us stand on the shoulders of those who came before

“Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white

Trinity Music Johnson tackled America’s mid-century afflictions—segregationLottie Rebecca Lee is spoken into the world in Fayetteville, North Carolina by a Black nurse who declares, Lord Jesus, if that aint the blackest little baby born this side of heaven. Later, Lottie will prove that she is the ancestors promise to unearth the Mississippi and Ghanaian atrocities that have tormented Benjamin Lee, her grandfather who was born during the Great Depression in Mississippis red clay tobacco fields, and Benjamin Junior, his son