That’s a conversation for another day; but Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., discusses the first black man who may have seen Jesus; and the presence of other blacks in the Bible. Check out an excerpt ...

In the half-hour show that premieres Thursday, Jesus is portrayed as a streetwise, trash-talking, foul-mouth son of "The Man," with a ministry that seems more hip-hop than ecclesiastical.

Gift Livingstone Sango is ecstatic after recently discovering his father’s painting portraying Jesus as a Black man. “My father used to draw Jesus as Black because God is for all of us. He is ...

“It was more plausible that (Jesus) was black than he was blond-haired and blue-eyed,” says Halsband. “In that area of the world, people are olive-skinned and dark-skinned.

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. But as his new live-action series “Black ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — For the first time in his life, Gift Livingstone Sango, 65, saw a painting by his father depicting Jesus as a Black man. “My father used to draw Jesus as Black because ...

Some Black activists have led a movement to discard the White Jesus. Black theologians like the Rev. Albert Cleage have depicted Jesus as a man of color and a revolutionary. And during the George ...

The New Testament refers to a number of black people as well, including Simon of Cyrene, who carried Jesus’ cross (Matthew 27:32), and the Ethiopian eunuch, the emissary of Queen Kandake (or ...