Black Jesus, which features a black actor in a wig and biblical period clothing, has already inspired a petition drive with 1,140 supporters at Change.org to cancel the show.

Although the Church is making efforts to promote racial justice, it still has a long way to go. Since only about half of Black adults who were raised Catholic still identify as such, compared with ...

Amber Ruffin goads the "Late Night" host as he tentatively tells a punchline about Black movie-goers The post Seth Meyers Told to Pray to ‘Black Jesus’ After He Nervously Stutters Through Racial Joke ...

The leader of the Church of England has also weighed in on the portrayal of Jesus as a Black man. Rev. Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, tweeted four different artistic renderings of ...

Wherever Aaron McGruder goes, controversy follows. Black Jesus, McGruder's new live-action Adult Swim show starring Gerald "Slink" Johnson as the title character, debuts tonight amid criticisms ...

Yes, it does. This is what incarnation means — Jesus is a wholly Jewish man, with a brown face and skin, a black body, Mongolian features and a Polynesian stature. Every race and culture can make him ...

The life-size statue known as the Black Nazarene and showing Jesus carrying the cross was brought in the 16th century from Mexico on a galleon in 1606 by Spanish missionaries.