This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys - Season 1

First aired: 2/2/2003 6 episodes

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. There Is a River

Aired: 2/2/2003

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.

2. God Is a Negro

Aired: 2/3/2003

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

3. Guide My Feet

Aired: 2/4/2003

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

4. Freedom Faith

Aired: 2/5/2003

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

5. Inheritors of the Faith

Aired: 2/6/2003

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

6. Rise Up and Call Their Names

Aired: 2/7/2003

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