Readers familiar with Stephen Prothero’s book American Jesus will recognize the narrative arc of The Color of Christ ... In the process, we learn how people of faith—most notably white and black ...

As Black children ... to look white or be called ugly. Mostly everything you bought was organized for the white-skinned. Makeup, toys, hosiery, books. White all around. The color marked “nude ...

And African American families might have a black Santa instead of a white one ... waddling bird warm the hearts of children everywhere, regardless of the color of their skin.

The type of love that Toni Morrison writes of in “Paradise”: “That Jesus had been freed from white religion and he wanted these kids ... Black. They were not talking about his skin color ...

At the corner of Chicago and Linwood in Detroit stands a black Jesus clothed in a white robe adorned with ... The director described the paint color as brown, but others have referred to it ...