Closer Look with Rose Scott
Local Religious Leaders Discuss New PBS Documentary About The Black Church
February 16, 2021
The new PBS documentary “The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song” debuts tonight. The documentary led by Henry Louis Gates Jr. traces and explores the 400-year-old history of the Black church in America. Dr. Robert Franklin, James T. and Berta R. Laney Professor in Moral Leadership at Emory University and Rev. Kim Jackson, an Episcopal priest and Georgia State Senator talk with Rose about the importance of the documentary and the significance of the Black church in American history and politics.