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Discussion: The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates

Tue, Dec 07

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Online Event via Zoom

From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices on the African American experience comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America.

Discussion: The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates
Discussion: The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates

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Dec 07, 2021, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST

Online Event via Zoom

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For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a…

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