A Journey of Faith ; PBS Documentary Explores the Power of Religious Faith throughout African-Americans' History

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In many churches and neighborhoods, segregation is still a way of life. It's not that people of different races don't want to get together, necessarily, but many people tend to gravitate to familiar faces, say historians.

"Today people are looking for answers," says director W. Noland Walker about continuing racial isolation. A man of faith himself, he acknowledges vast changes in this country and anticipates a more compassionate future society - though he points out that Jim Crow laws were struck down only 40 years ago and it will take patience and especially faith to heal the old wounds.

This Far By Faith (PBS, June 24-26, check local listings) has been a long …