The Children Of Children Keep Coming

Breathtaking and evocative, The Children of Children Keep Coming celebrates African Americans’ dramatic struggle to assimilate into mainstream life in the United States, as well as their rich cultural contributions. From the grandmother proclaiming It’s never too late to spread seeds/We are one family as her spotless sack dress bellows in the wind, to Calli of the valley who sings We are one to eternity, brilliant and prolific artist Romare Bearden’s dynamic work illuminates Russell Goings’s stunning poetry. Speaking through renowned abolitionists and African American activists such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, and Abraham Lincoln, Goings artfully summons the western African griot whose stories, songs of praise, poetry, and music spread oral history and tradition.