Lorraine Toussaint as Narrator
Episodes 6
There Is a River
Explore the evolution of African-American religious thought, from the beliefs and rituals Africans brought to America to the influence of Christian teachings imposed on slaves in the new world.
Read MoreGod Is a Negro
After Emancipation, the minister and journalist Henry McNeal Turner uses the black church to engage newly freed blacks in the political realm.
Read MoreGuide My Feet
Trace African-Americans as they move from the rural South to the promised land of the industrial North.
Read MoreFreedom Faith
Faith sustained black families through the oppression of segregation in the 1940s and 1950s.
Read MoreInheritors of the Faith
Follow those who seek spiritual fulfillment outside of Christianity. It explores Islam and Yoruba.
Read MoreRise Up and Call Their Names
In 1998, 60 people embarked on an Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage.
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