The New Testament refers to a number of black people as well, including Simon of Cyrene, who carried Jesus' cross (Matthew 27:32), and the Ethiopian eunuch, the emissary of Queen Kandake (or ...

The DJ Marea Stamper has dropped the stage name the Black Madonna. After online pressure, including a petition that attracted more than 1,000 signatures, Stamper has adopted the alias the Blessed ...

The posters, which they distributed in the city of Plock in 2019, were meant to protest what was seen as the hostility of Poland’s influential Catholic church toward LGBTQ people.

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 ...

The painting is of Our Lady of Częstochowa, also known as Black Madonna of Częstochowa, which is a revered icon of the Virgin Mary alongside baby Jesus.

In Christian art, the term “black madonna” refers to icons of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus that are cast—for historically contested reasons—in black or dark brown.