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Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. AUDIE CORNISH, BYLINE: The idea of the Black church is often discussed in the context of politics, and that's really important. But for a new book and documentary, historian Henry Louis Gates wanted to go a bit deeper. He wanted to understand the Black embrace of Christianity. HENRY LOUIS GATES JR: Why did they do it? Did they do it to get into heaven? No. Is that why they embraced religion? Well, I think that that was one distant motivation, and that's part of, you know, their belief in Christianity. But I think that they did so tha...

TELEVISION Henry Louis Gates Jr. on his new documentary and the role of the Black church in social justice By Natachi Onwuamaegbu Globe Correspondent,Updated February 14, 2021, 4:06 p.m. Email to a Friend Henry Louis Gates Jr., shown inside Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, hosts "The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song," premiering Feb. 16 on PBS.Courtesy of McGee Media Critic and scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. has spent his career writing and teaching about African-American literature and the lives of Black Americans. His film work has included producing and hosting “Fin...

January is a big month for me, it being my 88th birthday and all. This latest version of January will be recalled in the history books, not for me but for the manner of President Trump’s leaving — a scary trashing of the Capitol by thousands of...

Opinion by Bakari Sellers America is struggling with a complicated set of challenges, raised up and laid bare during the Trump years. Tackling them requires a new generation of leadership that...

tip of the hat to democraticunderground.com Just seems sort of like the stars aligning that we would have the inauguration of the administration to rescue America from one of its worst crises ever to happen during the week of the celebration of the life of one of America’s greatest believers in HOPE, Dr. Martin Luther King. Anybody want to make the connection between Dr. King and America’s first black member of the executive branch in VP Kamala Harris is free to do so. Let us not forget that Harris also is the first to represent that other great oppressed group in the executive branch, wo...