Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Pt. 1) - The Black Church

The Tight Rope

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Society & Culture

5 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In the first installment of a 2-part conversation, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. begins by exploring his own lineage and African American history in general to draw connections to the community’s powerful connection to Christianity in his new documentary The Black Church - This is Our Story, This is Our Song. The series reveals the broad history and culture of the Black church and explores African American faith communities on the frontlines of hope and change. The Black Church features interviews with Oprah Winfrey, John Legend, Jennifer Hudson, Bishop Michael Curry, Pastor Shirley Caesar, and our very own Dr. Cornel West. Dr. Gates is an American literary critic, professor, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Become a member of our Patreon family for BTS access and more exclusive content! You can join at https://www.patreon.com/thetightropepod Full video versions at https://youtube.com/therealnews Previous episodes at https://youtube.com/thetightropepod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thetightropepod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetightrop... Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/thetightropepod Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and making a small donation: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-yt Sign up for our newsletter: hhttps://therealnews.com/sign-up-yt Like us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews Credits: Creator/EP: Jeremy Berry EP/Host: Cornel West EP/Host: Tricia Rose Producers: Allie Hembrough, Ceyanna Dent Beats x Butter (IG: @Butter_Records) #TheTightRope, #CornelWest, #TriciaRose, #SpkerBoxMedia

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0:00.0	I'm Professor Henry Lewis Gates Jr.
0:02.4	And today, I'm walking the tightro.
0:05.8	We are witnessing America as a failed social experiment.
0:13.4	How do we tell this story in a way that builds the kind of emotional momentum
0:17.7	of the colorblind ideology built?
0:20.5	So many young brothers and sisters of the younger generation find themselves so far removed
0:26.2	the best of their past.
0:28.1	What are we going to make out of the nothing we've been given?
0:32.3	How do you envision possibilities?
0:37.4	Hey everyone. Thanks for joining us on the tightrope where we engage in a love and
0:43.0	justice fuse dialogue and we try desperately and especially now desperately to keep our balance
0:49.2	on very tough issues. My name is Tricia Rose and I'm here with my dear friend and co-host Dr. Cornell West.
0:55.8	Hey, Cornell. How you doing? It's always a blessing to be in dialogue with you. What a joy.
1:02.9	What a joy. And you know how blessed we are today. We got a special brother today.
1:08.3	We do. So very special. His name was Henry Lewis Gase Jr. He's known to the
1:13.7	world for Skip because his love overflows. And who is Henry Lewis Gase Jr.? He's an intellectual genius who wrote a classic at the age of 37 years old called a signifying machia's a theory of African-American literature. He's the genius on the second front of institution builders.
1:30.3	He has facilitated the careers of more graduate students and professors than anybody else in the academy and still with a smile.
1:39.3	And the third front is when it comes to television.
1:43.3	We want him get into his Emmys and Peabody's and so forth.
1:48.0	But all in one, the son of Pauline and Henry Senior, Henry Lewis Gage,
1:56.0	Jr., nobody like him, brother.
1:58.0	We are blessed to have you in dialogue on the tightrope. Thank you so much,
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