Lorraine Toussaint as Narrator

Episodes 6

There Is a River

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February 2, 20036h
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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.

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God Is a Negro

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February 3, 20036h
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After Emancipation, the minister and journalist Henry McNeal Turner uses the black church to engage newly freed blacks in the political realm.

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Guide My Feet

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February 4, 20036h
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Trace African-Americans as they move from the rural South to the promised land of the industrial North.

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Freedom Faith

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February 5, 20036h
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Faith sustained black families through the oppression of segregation in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Inheritors of the Faith

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February 6, 20036h
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Follow those who seek spiritual fulfillment outside of Christianity. It explores Islam and Yoruba.

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Rise Up and Call Their Names

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Season Finale
February 7, 20036h
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In 1998, 60 people embarked on an Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage.

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