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Explore the 400-year-old story of the black church in America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
As Black Churches became prominent, white supremacists targeted these sacred places.
Jennifer Hudson’s first memory of church was on Easter Sunday.
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In the first decade after the Civil War, many Black Churches were built across the South.
Founded to be seminaries, HBCUs understood themselves to be doing the work of God.
Reverend Cain started rebuilding Charleston’s staple Black church after it was destroyed.