![]() When Black people come together for worship, he said, it is "a celebration of our culture, our history, of who we are, of how we got over, how we survived the madness, the claustrophobic madness of hundreds of years of slavery and then a century of Jim Crow and then anti-Black racism that we saw manifest itself at the Capitol." ![]() ![]() "We all come together to experience that circle of warmth," he told Religion News Service at the news conference. Gates said that during his summer visits to Martha's Vineyard, he attends services at Union Chapel, which features prominent Black preachers. 5 that while he is a critic of the Black church's history of male domination and homophobia, he has celebrated its culture and rejoiced in what it has overcome. Gates, who describes himself as a "spiritual person," said at a virtual news conference Feb. (The documentary is available to stream for free on pbs.org.) Musicians John Legend and Yolanda Adams are featured in the series. 16, the same day the four-hour documentary began a two-day run on PBS stations. Gates' book, The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song, was released Feb. ![]() The history of Black Christianity in America came to television screens this month in a documentary series based on a new book by Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., a Harvard University historian who is simultaneously an admirer and a critic of its influential role in American society. ![]()
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