The film's personal, impious God embodies some central premises of black theology. The concept of God or Jesus being black was first espoused by writer Robert Alexander in 1829, when his ...

In choosing McKenzie’s subtly feminine, African-American image of Christ as winner of its “Jesus 2000” competition, the National Catholic Reporter, a self-proclaimed “liberal” newspaper ...

The Book of Clarence, Jeymes Samuel‘s follow-up to all-Black Western The Harder They Fall, is, without doubt, the funkiest biblical epic ever put on screen. The film, which opened across the U.S ...

Aaron McGruder, who has pushed more than a few hot buttons with his stinging "The Boondocks," is gearing up for his "come to Black Jesus" moment.

A hustler presents himself as a messiah in director Jeymes Samuel's new movie, "The Book of Clarence." He talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about making a Biblical epic with a Black point of view.

It’s just Jesus now, back as a black man in Compton. He is not a crazy person who thinks he’s Jesus, as some characters suggest, unless he’s a crazy person who also performs miracles.

His presence with the poor is not docetic: the poor are Black, but Jesus is one of the poor, therefore Jesus is Black. In Cone’s usage these categories are corporate and historical, not literal or ...