Despite this peripatetic religious upbringing, it took until 2019 for Robertson to encounter his native city’s Shrine of the Black Madonna, a United Church of Christ congregation that birthed a ...

Getty Images A black Madonna is shown behind Beverly Williamson, caretaker of the Central United Church of Christ in Detroit (Credit: Getty Images) It’s an intriguing, unsettling notion – but ...

The artist, Dowdell, told the Free Press: "I can't divorce the Madonna from black women," comparing Jesus Christ's mother to "any Negro mother." The stained-glass window of the Pilgrims is still ...

The black Madonna of Loreto means to-day a portraiture ... nearly five hundred years before Christ, “ the gods of the people are many, but the God of nature is one.” ...

In one panel, the Christ child clutches a hair pick as he feeds from Mary’s breast. In another, the young savior plays with a cannabis leaf. A larger triptych features a Black Madonna in the pos ...

"Blackened Christ Causes a Dispute," read a front-page Free Press headline in September 1967. More: In 1967, Shrine of the Black Madonna unveiled black Jesus, Madonna painting Detroit '67 ...

On the side of the public library in the biggest city in the least religious state in the U.S., the Virgin Mary holds the infant Christ. "Black Freedom, Black Madonna & the Black Child of Hope," a ...

The seated figure of Christ, depicted in three fourths ... Various legends about the Black Madonna of Częstochowa, recorded down since the first quarter of the 16th century, have it that the Duke ...

Our Lady of Czestochowa is also known as the Black Madonna. Black Madonnas are Byzantine icons created mostly from the 12th-14th centuries in territories under the control of the Christian ...