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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

2021

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  • 1

EP1 Part One Feb 16, 2021

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of African American religion beginning with the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the extraordinary ways enslaved Africans preserved and adapted faith practices from the brutality of slavery to emancipation.

EP2 Part Two Feb 17, 2021

Discover how the Black church expanded its reach to address social inequality and minister to those in need, from the Jim Crow South to the heroic phase of the civil rights movement, and the Black church's role in the present.
5.5| 0h30m| en
Synopsis

The 400-year-old story of the black church in America, the changing nature of worship spaces, and the men and women who shepherded them from the pulpit, the choir loft, and church pews.

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Actuakers One of my all time favorites.
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