[Ohio-Talk] FW: Explore the 400-year-old story of the Black Church in America

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From: BENETTE DECOUX [mailto:bbdecoux at aol.com] 
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From: ThinkTV <enews at thinktv.org>
Date: February 16, 2021 at 10:05:45 AM EST
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Subject: Explore the 400-year-old story of the Black Church in America
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The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song airs February 16 and February 17 at 9pm on ThinkTV16

For many, the Black church is their house of worship. For some, it is ground zero for social justice. 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 the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., going to church in America also was “the most segregated hour” of the week.

The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song, which premieres tonight and tomorrow at 9pm on ThinkTV16, is a moving four-hour, two-part series from executive producer, host and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr. that traces the 400-year-old story of the Black church in America. It explores the changing nature of worship spaces and the men and women who shepherded them from the pulpit, the choir loft and church pews. The film also shows how the church is also a world within a world and the epicenter of the freedom struggle that revolutionized the United States across slavery and abolition, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and the Great Migration, and the civil rights movement.

Renowned participants in the series include media executive and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey; singer, songwriter, producer and philanthropist John Legend; singer and actress Jennifer Hudson; Presiding Bishop Michael Curry of The Episcopal Church; gospel legends Yolanda Adams, Pastor Shirley Caesar and BeBe Winans; civil rights leaders Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. William Barber II; scholar Cornel West; and many more.

 “Our series is a riveting and systematic exploration of the myriad ways in which African Americans have worshipped God in their own images, and continue to do so today, from the plantation and prayer houses, to camp meetings and store-front structures, to mosques and mega-churches," Dr. Gates said. "This is the story and song our ancestors bequeathed to us, and it comes at a time in our country when the very things they struggled and died for — faith and freedom, justice and equality, democracy and grace — all are on the line. No social institution in the Black community is more central and important than the Black church.”

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