Beneath the Skin

Winner of the 2008 Best Documentary Award
at the International Black Film Festival of Nashville

Two men walking and talking

“Beneath the Skin: Baptists and Racism”

“Beneath the Skin: Baptists and Racism” considers past mistakes and future challenges regarding racial unity and social justice. From the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the current immigration debate, “Beneath the Skin” peels back prejudices and confronts them with biblical mandates. Interviewees come from nearly a dozen states and represent the best in Baptist life, including: preacher and activist Will Campbell, Aidsand Wright-Riggins of American Baptist Churches USA, and Javier Elizondo of Baptist University of the Americas.

“Beneath the Skin” shows that racism is far from eradicated–inside or outside the church.

Yet many Baptists are working together in proactive ways to break down the racial and ethnic walls of division and to be faithful to the Bible’s moral vision.

The documentary, which won the Best Documentary award at the International Black Film Festival of Nashville in 2008, considers past mistakes and future challenges regarding racial unity and social justice. From the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the current immigration debate, “Beneath the Skin” peels back prejudices and confronts them with biblical mandates. Interviewees come from nearly a dozen states and represent the best in Baptist life.