Stafford Braxton is a Black Santa Claus, the founder of Santas Just Like Me, and a photographer. While working at a mall in North Carolina, Braxton heard a lot of requests for Santas of color ...

Long before "Santa Larry" came along, there was another bearded fellow who reigned as the go-to black Santa Claus in North Texas.And let me tell ...

But unlike nearly all of the others, and contrary to most classic American images of St. Nick, Jefferson is black. ... In its 24 years, the mall had never had a black Santa Claus. Advertisement.