Draped in flowing white robes with his arms stretched wide, a statue of a black Jesus towers over a corner on Detroit's west side. When the 7-foot statue was first erected in 1957 on the ...

At the corner of Chicago and Linwood in Detroit stands a black Jesus clothed in a white robe adorned with a red heart and gold rays, and his arms outstretched on both sides. The statue was first ...

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 ...

Jesus washed, straight ... but before Atlanta became a black Mecca, a capital, you know, Atlanta, Detroit was the place. If Detroit had more community choirs and church choirs, that really ...

"Could it be that Jesus Christ preserved him for a time ... s talking about,” said 27-year-old Tayson Stewart from Detroit. "The Black voters asleep. They gonna vote for Kamala because they ...

Jesus was depicted as a man of color — somewhere between brown and Black — and so were his disciples. Cleveland, who would go on to become a theologian and social psychologist, realized she ...