The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
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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Seasons & Episodes
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.
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.
Cast
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self - Host
Jonathan L. Walton
Self - Wake Forest University School of Divinity
Barbara D. Savage
Self - University of Pennsylvania
Larry G. Murphy
Self - Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Yolanda Pierce
Self - Howard University
Martha Simmons
Self - Author
Paul Harvey
Self - University of Colorado, Colorado Spring
Anthony Pinn
Self - Rice University
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Self - Princeton University
Robert Darden
Self - Baylor University