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Episode 2: Wednesday, February 17 and Tuesday, February 23, 9-11 p.m. Key figures include founder Richard Allen and preacher Jarena Lee of the African Methodist Episcopal Church abolitionist Frederick Douglass influential religious figure Henry McNeal Turner and pioneers Virginia Broughton and Nannie Helen Burroughs of the National Baptist Convention. Gates speaks with noted scholars, public figures and religious leaders about faith and the struggle for rights in the midst of growing racial violence that would continue well into the 20th century. With Emancipation and Reconstruction, independent Black churches flourished and helped the formerly enslaved navigate a perilous freedom by fulfilling the social, educational, financial, cultural and political needs of​ African Americans. As an awakening of Protestant Christianity spread in the 18th century, Black Americans embraced a vision of a liberating God and Black churches that would become bedrock institutions in the long struggle to dismantle slavery, culminating in the Civil War. explores the roots of African American religion, beginning with the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the extraordinary ways enslaved Africans preserved and adapted their faith practices under the brutal realities of human bondage. inside of Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA. Gates ( The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, African American Lives, Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise) examines the vital role the Black church has played in shaping the Black American experience, revealing how Black people have worshipped, and through their spiritual journeys, improvised ways to bring their faith traditions from Africa to the New World while translating them into a form of Christianity that was their own and also a redemptive force for a nation whose original sin was found in their ancestors’ enslavement across the Middle Passage.

The series, executive produced, hosted, and written by Dr. traces the 400-year history of this remarkable social institution in The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song (click link for the program page’s clips and web-only animated features). Renowned Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. For others, it is a place of transcendent cultural gifts exported to the world, from the soulful voices of preachers and congregants to the sublime sounds of gospel music. For some, it is ground zero for social justice. ( check schedule).įor many, the Black church is their house of worship. Episode 2 will be rebroadcast Tuesday, February 23, 9-11 p.m. The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song premieres February 16 and 17, 9-11 p.m.