Opinion: The pope is Black, maybe?

“We got a Black Pope.”This is the headline of a story posted Friday by the Washington Informer, a Black newspaper that has served the Washington area since 1964.It was a decidedly different headline from the ones in mainstream news outlets last week when Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV.The selection of the first U.S.-born pontiff caught some people off guard. And, if that surprised the world, it was even more surprising the pope, at least by the historical definition, is also Black.Leo’s maternal grandparents are identified as Black or “mulatto” in historical records. They were married and lived in ..