Name: The Black Church
ISBN: 9781984880338

Henry Louis Gates

"A powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community's abiding rock and its fortress"--

This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

The Black Church

Fraser Simons

This was on a subject I didn’t know anything about, so I found it very informative and enriching. The voice is very interesting, because it does feel kind of like a PBS special, which, it turns out, it is. I’m not sure which material was written first, but it does kind of feel heavily on a narrative throughline when some more information would have been good. 

There’s a few subjects where you just want more, but it moves on for the sake of the pace and structure. So, I would call this a supplemental book, or perhaps one that would wet your appetite for much more thorough texts on the topic. 

The audiobook was fantastic, as you might expect. It is basically an audio presentation of what I imagine the documentary is. Though I’ve not seen it.

The Black Church This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song