past event
GOSPEL
Friday, February 23 at 6 pm
Join The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire, The New Hampshire Center for Justice and Equity and New Hampshire PBS on Friday, February 23 at 6 PM at the Currier Museum of Art for a free screening and LIVE event of the new PBS series, GOSPEL, from acclaimed scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
This electrifying, interactive evening will explore Black spirituality through sermon and song on the national and New England stage, the historical significance of Gospel and the emergence of Gospel Choirs. And we’ll feature The Higher Praise Music and Arts Gospel Choir from Boston as they lead us to new musical heights.
While musical styles come and go, there is one sound that has been a constant source of strength, courage and wisdom. It is a message that resounds from the pulpit to the choir lofts on any given Sunday — one of good news in bad times: gospel.
A Collaboration of: The Black Heritage Trail of NH, The New Hampshire Center for Justice & Equity, The Currier Museum of Art, and New Hampshire PBS.
About Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has published numerous books and produced and hosted an array of documentary films. The Black Church (PBS) and Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (HBO), which he executive produced, each received Emmy nominations. In January 2024, Finding Your Roots, Gates’s groundbreaking genealogy and genetics series, will return for its tenth season on PBS in January 2024. His next history series for PBS, Gospel, premieres in February 2024.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has published numerous books and produced and hosted an array of documentary films. The Black Church (PBS) and Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (HBO), which he executive produced, each received Emmy nominations. In January 2024, Finding Your Roots, Gates’s groundbreaking genealogy and genetics series, will return for its tenth season on PBS in January 2024. His next history series for PBS, Gospel, premieres in February 2024.
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