Book Review: The Color of Christ --The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
'At the center of the book is the story of white Jesus… how he rose to become a conflicted icon of white supremacy'
2012-11-08
Kam Williams Special To The Skanner News
What did Jesus look like? The only hint we get from the scriptures is contained in the book of Revelation which describes Christ as having woolly hair. Otherwise, we know he was a Jew from an area of the world where most folks were brown-skinned a couple of millennia ago. Read the complete article
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