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 ...

No longer perpetually blond and blue-eyed, the Christian ideal of tolerance and inclusion is being depicted more often as what scholars agree he was: darker-skinned, with darker hair.

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.

Clementine Hunter’s Black Jesus is part of a tradition of imagery that dates to the early 19th century when Robert Alexander Young, in The Ethiopian Manifesto (1829), referred to the coming of a black ...

In each of these works, Jesus is depicted as a Black man, and no one really bats an eye. (The Lil Nas X video is designed to provoke, but not because of the color of Christ’s skin.) ...

A Black Jesus at this time was unknown. Now in the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the window was made by the studio of Henry Sharp, a prominent 19th-century American stained-glassmaker who was ...