The Black Madonna emerges as a transcendent symbol, weaving together threads of spirituality, mysticism and cultural significance that traverse religious boundaries. Spanning continents from ...

The Black Madonna, Fedele concludes, helps pilgrims process the disempowerment of women and L.G.B.T.Q. people in Catholicism. (This contradicts Begg’s argument that the cult of the Black ...

Black Madonna is a term used to describe images of the Virgin Mary and the Infant Jesus depicted with dark skin. The Black ...

Kandia Milton, chairman of the Black Slate, joined The Metro to share more about the organization and its endorsements.

In 2022, Christine Valters Paintner wrote an article for U.S. Catholic entitled “Learn to Take Your Troubles to the Black Madonna.”This piece focuses on the history and importance of the Black Madonna ...

The Black Madonna can be found in Russia, Poland, France and other European countries, even Ireland. But perhaps the greatest concentration is in southern Italy because of its ties to Byzantium ...

The 3-day event celebrating the Black Madonna painting is Friday through Sunday, when Rev. Wendell Anthony, head of the Detroit chapter of the NAACP, delivers the Sunday sermon.

In 1967, the Shrine of Black Madonna commissioned him to paint a mural of a Black Madonna and child that transformed the way many members of the Shrine saw themselves.

Despite this peripatetic religious upbringing, it took until 2019 for Robertson to encounter his native city’s Shrine of the Black Madonna, a United Church of Christ congregation that birthed a ...