In a few black American churches the image of a white Jesus never took ... an earlier version of this article referred imprecisely to Jesus’s background. While he lived in an area that later ...

blond haired Jesus is just as historically inaccurate as The Game’s CD cover, and this image has been more destructive to Black children than gangsta rap ever was. This is the story that must be ...

The painted image carried the same gaze as the generalized, ubiquitous portrait of Jesus. But this one was a Black man. His rich brown skin was a pleasant surprise. We had found a religious ...

Aaron McGruder, who has pushed more than a few hot buttons with his stinging “The Boondocks,” is gearing up for his “come to Black Jesus” moment ... both an NAACP Image Award and harsh ...

CHICAGO (RNS) — The first time the Rev. Lettie Moses Carr saw Jesus depicted as Black, she was in her 20s ... For years, Sallman’s Jesus “represented the image of God,” said Carr, director ...

OPINION: Jesus was Black, that's reality, and it's healthier for Black people to be Black-centric, which includes rejecting the whitewashed image of our brother Jesus. Of course, Jesus was Black.

Christena Cleveland spent much of her childhood in an evangelical church surrounded by traditional images ... eye. Jesus was depicted as a man of color — somewhere between brown and Black ...

(The Conversation) — A stained-glass window, which shows Jesus as a Black man for the first time ... As a scholar of images, I believe that the window speaks about equality, not only of race ...

One of Britain’s oldest churches is paying tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement by installing a version of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” with Jesus recast as a black prophet.

A Black Jesus at this time was ... It depicts scenes of Jesus speaking with women who also have dark brown skin. As a scholar of images, I believe that the window speaks about equality, not ...