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When Karl Berry walked into an Orthodox Church for the first time in 1983, he saw icons of Black saints. He and his wife were living in Atlanta at the time, and visiting a friend when they stopped by.
Jesus’ mother Mary was black. And so too were many biblical figures featured in the Bible. Swan adds that had Jesus been alive in 1950s America, he’d have been made to sit at the back of the ...
The biblical comedy "The Book of Clarence" brings to life East Jerusalem A.D. 33 inhabited by Black people and a colonizing white force of Romans. And it offers much for Catholics to ponder.
OPINION: LaKeith Stanfield stars as Clarence, a man without faith who decides to pretend to be a Jesus-like figure to prey on the true believers. The post What would Black Jesus do? ‘The Book of ...
Black Jesus in his frame was too big to wrap, so we covered the painting in a sheet and stood it upright behind our grandmother’s couch, which was slipcovered in plastic and never sat upon.