This Far by Faith
(2003)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 1
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).Rise Up and Call Their Names
Episode 6 - 2-07-2003
In 1998, 60 people embarked on an Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage.
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Inheritors of the Faith
Episode 5 - 2-06-2003
Follow those who seek spiritual fulfillment outside of Christianity. It explores Islam and Yoruba.
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Freedom Faith
Episode 4 - 2-05-2003
Faith sustained black families through the oppression of segregation in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Guide My Feet
Episode 3 - 2-04-2003
Trace African-Americans as they move from the rural South to the promised land of the industrial North.
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God Is a Negro
Episode 2 - 2-03-2003
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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There Is a River
Episode 1 - 2-02-2003
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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