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.

The statue was first erected 60 years ago at Sacred Heart Major Seminary but serves as one of the most iconic landmarks of 1967’s unrest. That’s the year unknown suspects painted the once ...

Could they, or would they, explain why our grandmother had not liked our Black Jesus? We were heartbroken that our deep-brown Jesus hadn’t inspired delight. No explanation was forthcoming.

Crossing the third rails of race and religion, “Black Jesus” is guaranteed to offend some people. In fact, one might accuse Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim of a certain naivete in greenlighting ...

Black, southwest Compton-dwelling Jesus may be cool, generous and compassionate, but he's no pushover.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Clementine Hunter’s Black Jesus is ...

Aaron McGruder creates a cursing, weed-smoking, cognac-hoarding Black Jesus who lives in Compton. Predictably, some people are really unhappy about this.

Jesus was Black, and it's healthier for Black people to be Black-centric, which includes rejecting the whitewashed image of Jesus.

What would Black Jesus do? ‘The Book of Clarence’ offers some hilarious answers OPINION: LaKeith Stanfield stars as Clarence, a man without faith who decides to pretend to be a Jesus-like ...

'Black Jesus,' from Aaron McGruder ('The Boondocks') and Mike Clattenburg, is a gentle comedy about Christ in Compton.

Adult Swim has an unholy legal entanglement on its hands over its series “Black Jesus.” Adult Swim has been slapped with a $75 million copyright lawsuit over the series, by a man who claims ...