Season 1

This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys

6 Episodes Premiered February 2, 2003

Season Overview

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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Episodes

1
EP 1

There Is a River

Feb 2, 2003

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.

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2
EP 2

God Is a Negro

Feb 3, 2003

After Emancipation, the minister and journalist Henry McNeal Turner uses the black church to engage newly freed blacks in the political realm.

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3
EP 3

Guide My Feet

Feb 4, 2003

Trace African-Americans as they move from the rural South to the promised land of the industrial North.

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EP 4

Freedom Faith

Feb 5, 2003

Faith sustained black families through the oppression of segregation in the 1940s and 1950s.

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EP 5

Inheritors of the Faith

Feb 6, 2003

Follow those who seek spiritual fulfillment outside of Christianity. It explores Islam and Yoruba.

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EP 6

Rise Up and Call Their Names

Feb 7, 2003

In 1998, 60 people embarked on an Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage.

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