TV The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our...

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PBS America (The nearest they have to public broadcasting ) are showing a timely 2 part documentary  over 4 hours  from Monday (10:40am or 8.35pm) via Freeview /Virgin /Sky ) which sheds light on the social , political and musical role the church played in Black cultural history. Non less than the career of Aretha Franklin .    

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

Featuring interviews with Oprah Winfrey, John Legend, Jennifer Hudson, Bishop Michael Curry, Cornel West, Pastor Shirley Caesar, Rev. Al Sharpton, Yolanda Adams, Rev. William Barber II, BeBe Winans, Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie and more!—a moving four-hour, two-part series from executive producer, host and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, that traces the 400-year-old story of the Black church in America, all the way down to its bedrock role as the site of African American survival and grace, organizing and resilience, thriving and testifying, autonomy and freedom, solidarity and speaking truth to power.

https://www.pbs.org/video/trailer-ectdli/

 

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