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♪ Sing while I'm here ♪ ♪ Sing while I'm here in Jesus name ♪ ♪ Oh, sing while I'm here ♪ ♪ Sing while I'm here ♪ ♪ Sing while I'm here in Jesus name ♪ - Shout while I'm here.

♪ Shout while I'm here ♪ ♪ Shout while ♪ ♪ Oh Lord, oh, I'm on the battlefield for my Lord, oh yeah ♪ ♪ Well, and I promised him that I ♪ ♪ I would serve him till I die ♪ ♪ I am on the battlefield for my Lord ♪ ♪ Oh, you know I left my friends and kinsmen ♪ ♪ Bound for the promised land ♪ ♪ The face of God upon me ♪ ♪ And the Bible in my hand ♪ ♪ Oh, in this that land I'm from ♪ ♪ Saying, sinner, quit the dark ♪ ♪ Oh my Lord ♪ (dramatic music) - [Nurse] All right, sweetheart.

- [Nurse] All right, we've been on... Oh, there we go.

(light music) - The right-hand side, this is the left-hand side.

Here's your heart in the middle.

Left lung looks great, you know, normal blood vessels.

That's your hemidiaphragm that goes up and down when you breathe, and so that lung looks great.

Here's your problem, you know, here's the tumor.

It's a little bit big, it's almost six centimeters.

So that's a little bit more than two inches.

There's your port... (horn music) ♪ Every time I turn around ♪ ♪ Oh, I'm standing on holy ground ♪ ♪ Every time I turn around, the Lord is blessing me ♪ I'm having a procedure done to take a look at a cancerous mass on my right lung.

♪ He blessing me ♪ ♪ The Lord is blessing me ♪ - Doors of the church is open.

(Hattie laughs) (guests laugh) Come right on in.

Amen, amen.

Amen, hi, how you doing this morning?

All right, all right.

All right, how you doing this morning?

♪ The Lord is my Savior ♪ ♪ Born the everlasting Lord ♪ ♪ Oh, what a blessing ♪ - Y'all make yourself at home in here.

(upbeat music) - I pray heavenly Father that all this Black-on-Black crime and the blood shedded, the killing, selling and using of drugs will soon come to an end.

Let us all go down on our knees, heavenly Father, and let us look up here that all of our help come from thee on high.

- The time that I've lived in Nashville, I've seen churches die.

There's a church that die every week in America.

Where are those churches located?

Is they historically African-American community?

100 years from now, I would not be surprised if there were no African-Americans.

♪ Let it shine ♪ ♪ I'm not gonna make it shine ♪ (upbeat music) - Amen.

Welcome to the Church of Corinthians.

(upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Oh man, I been in this neighborhood 30 years, man, 30 years, 30 years.

A baby boy, from a baby boy from, you know what I mean, a young man to a man.

This is it.

All this, look at this.

I wish it the neighborhood was like this when I growed up because see, when they start raising up these property taxes around here, that's gonna come a problem.

That's why these Black folks selling because see, all this right here.

My property taxes have jumped up to 2,000.

Like, wait a minute, from 900 to 2,000, where you get this from?

Because people like this come in.

(dramatic music) And then what we gonna...

If you can't pay it, somebody else come and pay it, you out.

To me, it's just like I'm going through time and Nashville is moving and building without us, the Blacks.

(dramatic music) Oh, this neighborhood gonna be gone, it's over.

I remember all the Black people used to live down the street, gone.

I go on 32nd, half of them gone.

31st, gone.

This street here, 33rd, gone.

Down the street, Clifton, gone.

It's changing right here before our eyes.

(dramatic music) (dramatic music) (horn music) (horn music) - [Receptionist] She's in her office, straight back there.

- Hello, come on in.

Sorry, I still can't believe you're in here.

How are you?

♪ Happy birthday to you (Judge laughs) - Look at you.

♪ Happy birthday to you - Thank you for singing to me.

♪ Happy birthday, dear Judge Lynda ♪ ♪ Happy birthday to you - Oh, thank you for coming down here to sing to me.

- I had to.

Drug court, hey.

- [Visitor] How are you?

- Hey there.

Came out to the drug court.

- Oh yeah, for general sessions.

- And I'm on the drug court board.

- Are you?

- I been in, like, 10 years or longer.

- Oh, I didn't know that.

- I got a guy who he called me this weekend and wanna know can he have his community service letter.

I don't do community service until you've done the community service, okay?

So I'll write the judge saying, hey, you get an opportunity, just send him back to me and we'll get it done and we'll do some counseling.

That's what I'll do with him this evening.

- As you know some of our, I don't a percentage, but some of our defendants don't go to church, they don't know you.

- [Fuzz] Lots of them don't, right.

They ought to and I can't, you know, because of church-state issues, I can't order them to go to church.

I suggest it oftentimes.

- [Fuzz] Do you?

But we want support for that defendant 'cause that's gonna keep them from coming back.

- Are you turn to Christ now 'cause it's got all the New Testament in it?

- [Steve] Baptist.

- Are you, that's better.

But I wanted to know the judges so that if I had to send something down here, the judge would know who I was and they could trust it.

That's the kind of relation, that's why I try to come and get to know who the judges are so they'll at least know my name when I write my letter whether they do anything with it or not.

(horn music) (Fuzz raspy breathing) - [Barbara] You been doing it right?

- Think to yourself, how can you miss doing it?

- You know how to miss, you know how to miss.

- [Fuzz] But they told me, but I can't remember.

- I need you to be on point, sir.

You have to start writing stuff down.

I can't be here every week anymore.

It was a true story 'cause I kind of remember Mama saying it.

So when he was little- - [Neva] I just had forgot it until today- - What was he about five or six years old or so out in the backyard preaching to the animals?

- Oh, that was funny.

- And Mama in kitchen singing and all the sudden, she heard this cat screaming and meowing, I guess.

And he out in the backyard, he baptizing the dog and then he trying to baptize the cat.

- I wouldn't have done that to no cat.

- [Neva] Yes, you did.

- Yes, you would have, in the water.

When he was a pastor, we would pay our money in church and then get it back from him after service was over with.

- [Neva] You gave us money when we got home.

So you didn't know you was giving us our money back that we put in church?

- It couldn't have been that much.

- [Reporter] According to Metro Police, a man wearing a ski mask is responsible for taking another man's life.

They say just before 8 p.m. last night, this situation unfolded on 25th Avenue north of Nashville.

That's between Fisk University and Centennial Park.

Here's a look at the scene.

Again, we're told the suspect was wearing a ski mask, walked up to an older man and it was shocking.

Any potential motives are unclear and it's... (light music) (light music) (light music) (light music) (light music) (light music) - What can I do, man?

- Just keep praying.

- Well, we need to do more than that.

Now, I wrote to the DA, I told them if any man be found in a fault, you who are spiritual restore him in meekness may you also be found on a fault.

So I'm praying for them to understand that you have some favor.

Well, why don't you do a prayer for us, man?

You still got some good prayer here.

Guide us in prayer.

Pray for me, too, you know I'm sick, too.

- Oh Lord our God, how excellent is your name in all the earth.

God, we just come to still give you honor, glory and praise for who you are.

We thank you, God, for giving us continued confidence even under this pressure.

Oh God, you said you'd be a company keeper, God, and we have found you to just be that.

God, we have sinned.

God, continue to bless not only me, but God, there's somebody out there that don't even know you done pardoned their sins.

So God, we pray that they get to know you in a special way during this time.

God, it's in Jesus name we pray this prayer, amen.

- And bless those in this prison.

Cause him to say hallelujah in the house, amen.

- [Pastor] Amen.

- On the other side of this journey here, what you going through, that you gonna be greater than you ever could've been.

Just think about that, that you gonna be a man that you never could've been without going through this here.

So I love you, man.

- [Pastor] Love you.

- And it ain't a damn thing you can do about it.

I don't know if I supposed to say that in here or not.

(Pastor laughs) But it's the truth, hear?

Ain't nothing you can do about it, man, I love you.

- [Pastor] God bless you.

- [Fuzz] I mean that, hear?

- [Pastor] Thank you.

- Be strong, man.

- Now, be careful, this place up here is very scary.

It's a very scary place.

(light music) No, don't go in there, it stinks.

Church office.

Locked.

If you open this door, you see holy water.

This is the holy water.

This water is old, very old.

Here's where I used to got teached here.

I got teached here.

There's a lot of bugs in that window.

Who is this?

I don't know, these was probably older people back then here.

It was probably older people that were here a long time ago.

♪ I threw off ♪ ♪ Put on ♪ ♪ Step out ♪ ♪ Step in ♪ ♪ Soon ♪ ♪ Lord, and I'm sending you praise ♪ ♪ I'm gonna put on ♪ ♪ Put on, step out, step in ♪ ♪ I'm gonna sit down ♪ ♪ I'm gonna latch on ♪ ♪ Unless, unless, unless ♪ ♪ My soul look back and wonder ♪ ♪ Look back and wonder ♪ - I have a dream.

- Yes, yes.

- One day my four little children will live in a land when they not judged by the color of they skin but by the content of they character.

But the main thing I wanna ask you about was that one day Blacks and Whites, Jews and Gentiles, Catholics and Protestants will join hands and walk down the streets of brotherhood together.

So are we wasting our time to think that there's gonna be a day when Blacks and Whites, Jews and Gentiles, Catholics and Protestants gonna join hands and walk down the streets of brotherhood together?

- Basically, it ain't gonna happen.

Basically, it's not gonna happen.

That's number one, but my belief in the Bible- - [Fuzz] Yeah, that it ought to happen.

- It ought to happen.

- When you say about Jesus, by the time Jesus was born, every race that was on the planet was a part of his DNA.

Some people say, "Jesus was Black."

They'll swear to it that he was Black and they'll paint pictures of him with dreadlocks and braids.

And you know how your wife was mad over the picture in our church that Jesus looked like a White guy, right?

- Yes, yes, yes, yes.

- Okay, and I always contended that Jesus was Sooner, sooner been one thing as another, all right?

- That's exactly right.

Because he had hypocrites in his blood, he had prostitutes in his blood, he had thieves in his blood, he had swindlers and what was Jacob?

Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.

Jacob was the worst, you know?

Jacob was a used car salesman who sold you a car that he knew didn't work, but Jesus trace his lineage back to Jacob.

(gospel music) Nashville is not just the Bible Belt.

Nashville is the buckle of the Bible Belt.

(upbeat music) ♪ You better not die without him ♪ ♪ Death has a way ♪ ♪ Oh, the Son rebuked the time ♪ ♪ The Son named Jesus Christ ♪ (upbeat organ music) (upbeat organ music) (upbeat organ music) - Well, the church is the final bastion, it's the final port and fort of racism.

The church is the place where government integrated and desegregated, churches were the places that espoused segregation where people went to be White only and Black only.

(dramatic music) This here is not the church.

The church is the people.

You don't preach that, I know you don't preach it.

I done heard y'all preaching.

The church is the people.

This ain't nothing but brick and mortar.

- Yeah, we was the first one.

Our church, we sowed when they started.

- In Nashville, her neighborhood was the first gentrified community in Nashville.

- Hundreds of White folks what used to be Black folks, I didn't even see us anymore because of what they'll come in.

And now they coming out here doing it to North Nashville.

- Okay, because Black folks just simply cannot afford to live here.

That's unfair when you consider- - You think that's a plan, is that a plan?

- [Sister] You know it is.

- It is a well thought out, - They planned that.

well-conceived- - There were meetings.

- Voted, well-designed and well-implemented plan.

You know why?

Because we don't trust each other.

- Why stay there just for the sake to say I'm Black and North Nashville, everything around me is changing and I'm like a dinosaur sitting in the middle of it?

People have moved out.

So why stay there?

- It's the White community that decides what the problem is, what the solution ought to be and control the money.

Or they have the benefit of bringing Black folk that they approve of to the table and into the conversation.

- We need to listen to our people and learn the need of... And then I'd like to thank Pastor Fuzz.

I always tell him, "You the only person I know "can get White people fill up a room "at 7 o'clock in the morning."

(light music) (raspy breathing) (light music) (raspy breathing) (light music) - That was tough.

(light music) (light music) (light music) - [Doctor] Give me a couple coughs.

(Fuzz coughs) (light music) (light music) - Whither shall I go?

Lord, Almighty God, I'm just ratchet, undone.

I'm a filthy rag in your sight, save me, Lord.

Almighty God, I pray you'd forgive me all my sins and my transgressions.

Almighty God, I just wanna say thank you, Jesus.

Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

You maketh me to lie down in green pastures leading me all beside the still water.

Thou restoreth my very soul, thou leaded me in a path of righteousness for thou very name's sake.

Yea, do I walk through the valley of the shadows of death, I shall fear no evil.

I know that you with me, thy rod and thy staff do comfort me.

Thou prepared a table right there in the presence of my enemies.

I don't have to worry about my enemies because you prepared a table right there in the presence of my enemy.

Thou anoint my head with oil and my cup runneth over.

So surely, surely Jesus, surely, surely the Messiah, surely, surely Jehovah, surely Master, surely Lord, that goodness and mercy shall follow me.

(light music) - [Fuzz] Mysteries do unfold.

Everything must change.

Nothing or no one remains the same.

(light music) (congregation applauds) (choir sings) (congregation applauds) - [Congregant] Let's go.

- May the Lord bless you and keep you.

- [Congregant] Oh yes, Lord.

- May the Lord cause his light to shine on you.

May the Lord be good to you and give you peace, amen.

- [Congregation] Amen.

♪ Lord, oh, I'm on the battlefield for my Lord ♪ ♪ Oh yeah ♪ ♪ Well, and I promised him that I ♪ ♪ I would serve him till I die ♪ ♪ And I'm on the battlefield for my Lord ♪ (light music) (light music) ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ - [Announcer] This program was funded in part by Paul L. Riggan.

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