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Adorning the walls of the Historic Black Police Precinct and Courthouse Museum in Overtown is a series of artworks, each ...
Five days after the police-involved, Memorial Day murder of George Floyd in 2020, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, ...
Standing in the pews at the Shrine of the Black of Madonna church on Detroit's west side, Diana Nilaja Stewart gazes at a painting that stretches high in the chancel — a black Jesus and black ...
It has been said and often that Purvis Young is to Overtown ... me as an outcast artist, a Black artist, a ghetto artist, the Picasso of the ghetto,” Young said in an interview for a publication ...
N1.3 million. The suspect, popularly known as ‘Black Jesus’ reportedly stormed the home of one Oladipupo Adeniran and threatened to burn the house to the ground. Confirming the incident in a ...
The Ogun State Police Command has apprehended a suspected cultist, Peter Falola, popularly known as ‘Black Jesus,’ for allegedly committing assault, arson, and vandalism of property valued at ...
How Young might change how we think about prayer. During the first three years after its 2004 publication, Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence sold a total of only 59,000 copies ...
This scrutiny reveals how society continues to impose unfair standards on young Black girls, scrutinizing them in ways that go far beyond their White counterparts. Blue Ivy, daughter of music ...
The late Purvis Young, a native of Miami’s Overtown neighbourhood and arguably the city’s most beloved artist, developed a visual lexicon comprised of his own unique iconography. Horses ...
By Jessica Nicholson Multiplatinum country singer/songwriter/producer Chris Young has signed with Black River Entertainment’s Black River Records roster. Joining Black River marks a major career ...
In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, Gloria Purvis spoke with Sam Sawyer ... When [you told the story of taking] that pencil as a young child [as an example of conscience], you ...