Christena Cleveland spent much of her childhood in an evangelical church surrounded by traditional images ... Jesus who looked like Thor. Now she realized that he looked more like her, a Black woman.

Stephanie Borowicz was on the ninth “Jesus” of her ... As the prayer reached a crescendo, at least one member shouted objections. Turzai, standing behind her, looked up again and nudged ...

"That was protest — that was not an invocation, that was not a prayer ... woman. But the occasion was clouded by an alienating opening prayer from a fellow lawmaker who repeatedly referenced ...