The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
Miniseries
2021 · 2 episodes
1. Part One
2021-02-16 · 120m
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.
2. Part Two
2021-02-17 · 120m
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.
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