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Soul America

Soul America Season 1: Episode Guide & Ratings

Season 1 Episodes

1. Amazing Grace

September 4th, 2020

This first episode travels through the South, from Muscle Shoals in Alabama to Stax in Memphis, taking a detour north to Detroit, to explore how Motown's most soulful achievement showed the whole world a successful, sophisticated image of black people, at a time when Motown musicians themselves were subject to the same treatment as any black American.

2. Say It Loud

September 11th, 2020

How inequality, poverty and racism drove black American musicians to a harder soul sound in the late 60s and early 70s.

3. Sweet Love

September 18th, 2020

How, in the 70s and 80s, a second coming of soul men offered a black female audience slow jams and sexual healing.