Charlton Heston played the part of Moses on the silver screen, while Cleopatra was portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor. The hand that reaches out to receive God's graces along the curved vault of the Sistine Chapel is pale in color, and in Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting The Last Supper, our savior shares his final meal with twelve white apostles. Throughout history, biblical characters have been portrayed as Caucasian in artwork and in words, while the actions of people of color during this time have remained largely unreported-and this is an entirely inadequate, inaccurate, and unacceptable...
Charlton Heston played the part of Moses on the silver screen, while Cleopatra was portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor. The hand that reaches out to receive...