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Mar 17, 2023 · In those paintings, as in “An Archaeology of Silence,” Wiley reimagines depictions of Christ and other wounded, dead, or otherwise recumbent figures with contemporary Black men (and, in the ...
Apr 5, 2024 · A stained-glass window, which shows Jesus as a Black man for the first time, tells a story not only of race but of gender, class and ethnicity.
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The first African women I could find in the Bible is Hagar, an Egyptian and a slave of Abraham’s wife, Sarah. In Egypt, then as now, there were both brown and black-skinned people; but there is a good likelihood that Hagar was a black woman captured in Nubia and brought as a slave to Egypt. I suspect that she may have been part of the gift package ...
In time the descendants of Isaac were themselves made slaves in the land of Egypt, and God heard their cry. The Pharaoh felt threatened because there were so many of them, and at first he tried to kill them with hard work. Despite severe oppressions, the people flourished, and so he commanded that the mid-wives should not allow the Hebrew male chil...
Of the black and/or African people named in the Bible, one of the most outstanding is the Queen of Sheba. She heard not only of the wealth of Solomon, but also of his wisdom, as his ships carried to her shores news of his kingdom along with their cargo. The Bible says that she heard “of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord” (1 Kings ...
The next woman of whom I shall speak declared in a beautiful poem that she was black and beautiful (Song of Solomon 1:5). What a combination! A very unusual thing about this women was that she knew how beautiful she was, and yet she was never conceited or obnoxious about it. Even other women loved her. They called her “The fairest among women,” and...
As we come to the New Testament, we are sure that there were black women in Jerusalem who witnessed his crucifixion; but like most of the other women who followed Jesus, they are nameless and unidentified. We do know that his cross was carried by Simon of Cyrene, most probably a black, and if he is mentioned, there were black women present as well....
Jesus told a parable about a woman baking bread. She put just a very small amount of yeast into the dough, and its action produced tremendous results. The yeast represents the good news of the Gospel and the transformed life in Christ. If you bake your own bread, you know that you have to take very good care of the yeast. It is composed of living o...
Mar 31, 2024 · Jesus has been portrayed as Korean, a Black man with dreadlocks, as an indigenous Māori with a full-faced tattoo, and even as a Black woman.
Nov 19, 2012 · In their new book, The Color of Christ, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey explore how different groups have claimed Jesus as their own — and how depictions of Jesus have both inspired civil rights crusades, and been used to justify the violence of white supremacists.
Kehinde Wiley’s paintings and sculptures confront the silence surrounding systemic violence against Black people through the visual language of the fallen figure.
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Apr 25, 2024 · With countless images of Jesus depicted as a white man dominating Christian iconography, African Americans and other minority groups began questioning the validity of worshipping a deity who didn’t reflect their own race.
