The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Sociology of Urban Areas it is a ghost town—and

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Easy Rawlins

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Sociology of Urban Areas it is a ghost town—andFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, a powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black communitys abiding rock and its fortress. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, segregated West Virginia town, the church was his family and his communitys true center of gravity. Within those walls, voices were lifted up in song