Season 1
6 episodes · Feb 2, 2003
The 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).
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- S1E1
There Is a River
Feb 2, 2003360mExplore 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.
- S1E2
God Is a Negro
Feb 3, 2003360mAfter Emancipation, the minister and journalist Henry McNeal Turner uses the black church to engage newly freed blacks in the political realm.
- S1E3
Guide My Feet
Feb 4, 2003360mTrace African-Americans as they move from the rural South to the promised land of the industrial North.
- S1E4
Freedom Faith
Feb 5, 2003360mFaith sustained black families through the oppression of segregation in the 1940s and 1950s.
- S1E5
Inheritors of the Faith
Feb 6, 2003360mFollow those who seek spiritual fulfillment outside of Christianity. It explores Islam and Yoruba.
- S1E6
Rise Up and Call Their Names
Feb 7, 2003360mIn 1998, 60 people embarked on an Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage.