Black Jesus Season 1 follows the outrageous exploits of Jesus Christ who returns to Earth in present-day Compton, California. This unconventional Jesus isn’t your typical carpenter-turned-preacher.

The Washington, D.C., my sisters and I grew up in was known as Chocolate City for good reason. As Black children in the city then, we were a majority. We sauntered from school to store to home to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christena Cleveland spent much of her childhood in an evangelical church surrounded by traditional images of a porcelain-skinned ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Of course, Jesus was Black. The evidence is clear. The Bible says He had ...

The British actor, who plays the mysterious Messiah in Jeymes Samuel's comedic biblical epic, says he "expects and welcomes" a backlash from conservatives to his groundbreaking performance: "Bring it ...

For nearly 150 years, a stained-glass window portraying Jesus and three biblical women as Black hung at St. Mark's, an 1830 Greek Revival church in Warren, Rhode Island. It's said to be the only known ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Mr. Stewart is a writer and speaker on race, religion and politics. He is the author of “Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle,” from which this essay is adapted. See more of our coverage in your ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — For the first time in his life, Gift Livingstone Sango, 65, saw a painting by his father depicting Jesus as a Black man. “My father used to draw Jesus as Black because God is ...

A detail of the window showing Jesus and the Samaritan Woman (photo by Hadley Arnold, all photos courtesy Hadley and Peter Arnold) The earliest known stained-glass window portraying a Black Jesus has ...

About 20 years ago, actor and director Jean-Claude La Marre was looking for his next big thing. His 2003 Western, “Gang of Roses,” starring a majority-Black female cast including Lil’ Kim, was doing ...