The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song (2021)
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.
First Air Date: 2021-02-16
Last Air Date: 2021-02-17
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 2
Networks: PBS
Top Cast
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as Self - Host
- Jonathan L. Walton as Self - Wake Forest University School of Divinity
- Barbara D. Savage as Self - University of Pennsylvania
- Larry G. Murphy as Self - Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
- Yolanda Pierce as Self - Howard University
- Martha Simmons as Self - Author
- Paul Harvey as Self - University of Colorado, Colorado Spring
- Anthony Pinn as Self - Rice University
- Eddie S. Glaude Jr. as Self - Princeton University
- Robert Darden as Self - Baylor University
Seasons
Miniseries (2021)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Part One
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.
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Ep. 2: Part Two
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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