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 ... about two young African American ...

Ma Jones was not to be blamed that the Jesus that hung in her household was an image of a young white man. She was like other Black Americans passing by that same picture of Jesus as one of the ...

Purvis Young, a self-taught painter who emerged from ... painted by members of the Black Arts Movement. In the early 1970s he created a mural of his own, plastering a wall along a deserted stretch ...

But Adult Swim's new comedy, Black Jesus, is raising the ire of pastors ... who mocked Christianity and attempted to recruit him. "Young people are searching and when they find something like ...

For four decades, self-taught artist Purvis Young, who died April 20 at 67 ... the activities of contemporary art. Inspired by the Black Arts Movement’s Wall of Respect in Chicago, he had ...

"Purvis Young was a modern-day griot in terms of how he documented the Black experience through his eyes and what he saw in his environment," says Timothy A. Barber, executive director of the ...

With shades on his face and paint on his fingers, Purvis ... Today, the Black Archives boasts a collection of several hundred works, and the Culmer/Overtown library features a Young mural that ...