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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Who is Jesus? According to spiritual guru Deepak Chopra, there are three interpretations. Sign up here. In his book "The Third Jesus," published this week, Chopra says there ...