Lamb’s Players’ ‘Cotton Patch Gospel’ adds some twang and laughs to the Jesus story The 1981 off Broadway musical has been produced at the Coronado theater four times over the past 35 years ...

Jesus’ mother Mary was black. And so too were many biblical figures featured in the Bible. Swan adds that had Jesus been alive in 1950s America, he’d have been made to sit at the back of the ...

Black Jesus in his frame was too big to wrap, so we covered the painting in a sheet and stood it upright behind our grandmother’s couch, which was slipcovered in plastic and never sat upon.