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Article: "Our Father, God; Our Brother, Christ; or are we bastard kin?": images of Christ in African American painting.
- Article from:
- African American Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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On August 31, 1924, in New York City, Fourth International Convention of Negroes of the World closed with a unique ceremony that celebrated a Blessed Black Man of Sorrows and the Blessed Black Mary. With much fanfare and to a hall filled to capacity, a group of African American ministers declared Jesus to be black (Negro World 6 Sep. 1924: 4). This event indicated the growing need to clarify the color of God in the African American religious community. The heightened racial awareness spawned by the Harlem Renaissance brought the color of everyone, including Christ, to the fore.
This need began with the first converted slaves in the seventeenth century and ...