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

2021 - 2021

Part One

16th February 2021

Episode 1

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.

Part Two

17th February 2021

Episode 2

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.

Top Cast

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.•Jonathan L. Walton•Barbara D. Savage

Director

Stacey L. Holman

Documentary

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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Full Cast

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Self - Host

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Jonathan L. Walton

Self - Wake Forest University School of Divinity

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Barbara D. Savage

Self - University of Pennsylvania

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Larry G. Murphy

Self - Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

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Yolanda Pierce

Self - Howard University

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Martha Simmons

Self - Author

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Paul Harvey

Self - University of Colorado, Colorado Spring

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Anthony Pinn

Self - Rice University

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Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Self - Princeton University

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Robert Darden

Self - Baylor University

Michael Eric Dyson

Self - Georgetown University

Full Crew

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Executive Producer

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Dyllan McGee

Executive Producer

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John F. Wilson

Executive Producer

Kevin Burke

Producer

Matthew Head

Original Music Composer

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Graham Smith

Director of Photography

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Stacey L. Holman

Director

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Christopher S. Bryson

Director

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Shayla Harris

Director

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