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Review: Allen Callahan on Henry Louis Gates’s “The Black Church”

Ann Kjellberg
Apr 27, 2021
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Written in flowing prose by a distinguished professor teaching at one of the world’s most prestigious universities, and with a two-part PBS television series in tow, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,’s The Black Church promises to be a definitive work on African Americans’ most venerable institution. Gates quotes Oprah Winfrey, one of a cavalcade of VIP’s gracing…

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