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| BLACK CHURCH, THE: THIS IS OUR STORY, THIS IS OUR SONG (PBS)
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BROADCAST
HISTORY:
2/16/21
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2/17/21
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STATUS:
canceled/ended (2020-2021 season) |
TIME SLOT:
completed airing its current season |
SEASON(S):
1 (4 episodes, 0 of which have yet to air) |
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
limited series |
DESCRIPTION:
(from PBS's press release, January 2021) Today at the Virtual PBS Press Tour, PBS and WETA announced THE BLACK CHURCH: THIS IS OUR STORY, THIS IS OUR SONG will premiere February 16 and 17, 2021 at 9:00 p.m. ET on PBS stations nationwide (check local listings). This 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, 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. The documentary reveals 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 not only truly their own, but a redemptive force for a nation whose original sin was found in their ancestors' enslavement across the Middle Passage. |
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as Host
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CREW INFORMATION:
· Dyllan McGee as EP
· Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as EP
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GENRE(S):
· reality (all)
· reality (documentary)
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STUDIO INFORMATION:
· McGee Media
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