Chicago • The first time the Rev. Lettie Moses Carr saw Jesus depicted as Black, she was in her 20s. It felt “weird,” Carr said. Until that moment, she’d always thought Jesus was white.

Biblical and historical evidence suggest that Jesus, born in Bethlehem and raised in ... taught in school that there were four races—white, black, yellow, and brown—with white often portrayed ...

What race was Jesus of Nazareth, one of the most consequential figures in the history of the world? Nobody can say for certain, but based on recent comments by the head of the Church of England ...

Our Jesus experience raised questions about believing as a Black person in a God depicted and envisioned as white. Ma Jones was not to be blamed that the Jesus that hung in her household was an ...

The authors’ ambitious—some might say audacious—aim is to track “the creating and exercise of racial and religious power through the images of Jesus and how that ... people of faith—most notably white ...

Jesus of Nazareth was a Palestinian Jew born during Roman ... that Jesus and Santa are “white men” may have been fair, but it wasn’t balanced. Bring on the black Jesuses and black Santas.

But Jesus, a Jew born in Bethlehem ... desire — sometimes the psychological need — of some black Americans to see Christ as white may “simply be a habit.” “The first time I saw images ...

Slaves who accepted Jesus into their hearts were better off ... One text even teaches that “most black and white Southerners had long lived together in harmony” until “power-hungry ...

"The truth is that Christ was born in an occupied state and preached equality at a time when that wasn't very acceptable." By portraying Jesus as a black African, Dornford-May hopes to sharpen the ...

The late Rev. James Cone, known as the father of Black liberation theology ... is the centurieslong inaccurate portrayal of Jesus as a white, European-looking man. The popular series "The Chosen ...