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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...