That’s just a small sampling of the thousands the Met has collected in the past four years, in an attempt to beef up its historical photos of everyday Americans, particularly African-Americans.

They’ve been praying every Sunday with a 14-by-28-foot painting of a crucified black Jesus on display behind the altar. The casting of African-American Desi Giles at the Park Theater Performing ...

points out that among many Caribbean and American black people, even if pictures of a blond-haired Jesus hung at home or in church, “The worship was inevitably distinctly African derived.” ...

For African-American Christians, Easter is one of the most important holidays of the year. It is a time to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ as well as a time to reflect on the challenges ...

(RNS) — ‘It is embarrassing to many of us that in the church where we worship, there are no United States African American saints ... and painted the statues of Jesus and Mary black ...