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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Sociology of Urban Areas Saints and Misfits is aFrom 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