Politics and Chicago's black church

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Channel: Chicago Tribune · 2010 · News & Politics

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In this excerpt from the 2005 Chicago Tribune documentary "The Power of the Pulpit", narrator Clarence Page examines the social activist side of Chicago's African-American churches, and how these institutions have influenced politics in that city. Featuring interviews with Jesse Jackson, Jeremiah Wright, Clay Evans and the late Arthur Brazier, who died on Oct. 22, 2010.

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