Philips offered its first Communion, on June 19, 1910. “The town’s Episcopal churches had been segregated at least since the black St. “Pop Gates was buried at the Rose Hill Cemetery, where our forebears were among the very few Negroes allowed to disturb the eternal sleep of Cumberland’s élite white Episcopal citizenry. Lawrence Gates, known as Pop Gates to his family. In an article for The New Yorker, written in 2008 and titled “Family Matters,” Gates wrote about his paternal grandfather, Edward St. However, his interest was sparked much earlier.
Gates now is famously the host of “Finding Your Roots,” the PBS show that traces the family histories of celebrity guests. His mother’s family was from West Virginia. Gates himself has Episcopal roots, although he is shown in the series attending his childhood church, Waldon United Methodist Church in Piedmont, W.Va. And it has been integrated with the Christian story and experience.” “And that heartbeat comes from Africa,” Gates said. And that’s where the Black church is found: in those heartbeats.” And eventually, there may be shouts and there may be silence, but something is moving inside. “When somebody starts singing in a certain way,” Curry said, “folk, inside, start reacting and responding. Gates and Curry discuss the powerful influence of music in the Black church and the emotional pull of traditional spirituals. William Barber II and gospel legends Yolanda Adams, Pastor Shirley Caesar and BeBe Winans. “The documentary reveals how Black people have worshipped and, through their spiritual journeys, improvised ways to bring their faith traditions from Africa to the New World, while translating them into a form of Christianity that was not only truly their own, but a redemptive force for a nation whose original sin was found in their ancestors’ enslavement across the Middle Passage,” according to the PBS description.īesides Curry, Gates interviews Oprah Winfrey musician John Legend actress Jennifer Hudson, civil rights leaders the Rev.
Gates traces the 400-year-old story of the Black church in America as the source of “African American survival and grace, organizing and resilience, thriving and testifying, autonomy and freedom, solidarity and speaking truth to power. 16 and 17 on PBS stations nationwide and is available via PBS on various streaming services. via FacebookĮpiscopal Presiding Bishop Michael Curry is among the faith figures in “The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song,” a new four-hour, two-part documentary series by noted historian and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Presiding Bishop Michael Curry appears in “The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is our Song,” interviewed by Prof.
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