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The History Hour: Black Jesus

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03/04/2021 GMT

Black Jesus

BBC World Service - The History Hour, Black Jesus

The pastor who argued God was black; Mrs Thatcher wows Moscow; orchid-hunters kidnapped

The pastor who argued God was black; Mrs Thatcher wows Moscow; the orchid-hunters kidnapped in the Colombia jungle

On Easter Sunday 1967 the Reverend Albert Cleage re-named his church in Detroit the Shrine of the Black Madonna. He preached that if man was made in God's image there was little chance that Jesus was white as most of the world's population is non-white. Plus, how British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wowed the Soviet Union with a live TV interview in 1987; how the death of singer Karen Carpenter raised the profile of the anorexia eating disorder; and the story of two Englishmen who were kidnapped on an orchid-hunt in Colombia.

Photo: Black Madonna and Child (Courtesy of BLAC Detroit)

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