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

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The Black Church Bridges the Divide Through Music

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Jennifer Hudson On the Power of Church

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The Church as a Place of Refuge

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The Black Church

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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song will explore 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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Discover how the Black church expanded to address social inequality.

Members of the Pentecostal church praising the Lord.

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Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of African American religion.