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| From the Background to the Forefront: Women and the Black Church |
| February 27, 2021 |
One of the major themes to emerge from the new PBS documentary The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song is the often-overlooked roles Black women play in strengthening that institution. |
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| This is Our Story, This is Our Song: The Making of “The Black Church” |
February 27, 2021 |
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Stacy Holman and Shayla Harris are producers and directors of the new Henry Louis Gates, Jr. documentary series The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song, currently streaming on PBS. They describe how they got involved with the project and what they hope its four hours impart about the most powerful institution in Black culture -- the Black church. Both women wanted to bring a sense of history and urgency to the project, a balance between the importance of the church in American history and the impact it now wields on Black life and beyond.
The conversation continues with Harris and Holman, as they describe the precarious position the Black church is in today, wedged between the recent resurgence of white supremacy and a new flourishing of its political power.
Stacey L. Holman, Series directed/produced of The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song, and other award-winning projects including episode three of the 2018 PBS series Reconstruction: America After the Civil War, also hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Shayla Harris, award-winning independent director, and producer of two-of-four episodes of the documentary series The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song. She was also a producer on Who Killed Malcolm X?, a six-part, Emmy nominated, documentary series for Fusion/Netflix.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Ph.D. American literary critic, professor, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual. Author, most recently of The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song, and executive producer and host of the documentary film of the same name. He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
Stacy L Holman
Shayla Harris
by Stefania Rousselle
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| In Her Grandmother’s House: Black Women in the Black Church |
February 27, 2021 |
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One of the featured scholars in The Black Church is Dr. Yolanda Pierce, dean of Howard University’s divinity school and a womanist theologian. Dr. Pierce grew up in the Black church and describes how women keep that institution strong and growing, despite being often unwelcome in the pulpit. If the Black church is to remain relevant, it must confront its history of sexism and integrate the wisdom and perspective of women into the theology.
Rev. Dr. Yolanda Pierce, Ph.D., Professor at, and Dean of the Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, DC. Author most recently of In My Grandmother's House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit from 1517 Media.
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