Season 1
Season 1 • 2003
0The project demonstrated how men and women of color have been forced -- arguably more so than any other ethnic group in the U.S. to rise above their circumstances to flourish and prevail, guided by their unshakeable faith in a divine power (either one borne of their own African religions or one instilled in them by white society).
Episodes
1. 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.
2003-02-02 • 360 min
2. God 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.
2003-02-03 • 360 min
3. Guide My Feet
Trace African-Americans as they move from the rural South to the promised land of the industrial North.
2003-02-04 • 360 min
4. Freedom Faith
Faith sustained black families through the oppression of segregation in the 1940s and 1950s.
2003-02-05 • 360 min
5. Inheritors of the Faith
Follow those who seek spiritual fulfillment outside of Christianity. It explores Islam and Yoruba.
2003-02-06 • 360 min
6. Rise Up and Call Their Names
In 1998, 60 people embarked on an Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage.
2003-02-07 • 360 min
