![]() ![]() In the process, it gave congregants needed hope during the brutal oppression of slavery and Jim Crow and the country such leaders as abolitionist Frederick Douglass and the Rev. "The Black Church," which goes back hundreds of years to explore the Islamic, Christian and traditional-religion roots of Africans before they were enslaved in America, details how a "religious foundational stew" evolved into a distinctive Christian entity in the U.S., Gates says. More: Black History Month TV guide: 10 shows that'll teach you a thing or two about the Black experience So much of the way we've interpreted the Bible and so much of the way we've embraced it has been about the struggle." "I do believe that there's something about all the struggle and the suffering that Black folks have had to endure. "Learning about the resilience and the community that was built in the Black church is an essential part of us understanding how Black folks have made it this far in this country when there were so many forces that were conspiring against us doing so," says Legend, who also is an executive producer. Legend, who says his exposure to music as a child at his Pentecostal church in Springfield, Ohio, inspired his singing career, says the Black church has long been a bulwark in tumultuous times. Harvard professor and author Henry Louis Gates Jr., right, talks to singer John Legend, a fellow executive producer on Gates' PBS documentary, "The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song." ![]()
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