[…] you. Just look at that. The things people do to themselves.” And because there were other men, black men, standing on the sidewalk staring at him, he pulled into the center lane and, accelerating, […]
[…] in his bones. I swung the Impala’s door wide open. The car was a package of glory, black and red and white body, tuck-and-roll upholstery, bucket seats. It was the vehicle you would hot-wire […]
[…] but “chick,” said my father. Paul liked to help choose the dresses. This one had a tiny black and white print that could have been letters or puzzle pieces. “Also scooting. Also taking solid […]
[…] gets his floor wet.” It was raining hard outside, and MacDonald had left glistening footprints across the black mat. Looking relieved, the clerk sat back down and said, “Captain Endicott’s with Charlie Troop. They’re […]
For more articles like this, please visit the Fall 2018 Issue. Being a black Latter-day Saint and knowing that Elijah Abel was ordained to the priesthood reinforces my belief that God is no respecter […]
[…] 7 years, serves annually on the Utah Juneteenth Organizing Committee, is a Founding Member of the Utah Black Roundtable where she has served as Secretary for 4 years, and serves as Director of Special […]
[…] the University of Deseret Board of Regents on 25 February 1856, “a silecious granite dark color almost black with light colored stripes some what resembling petrified poplar or cotton wood bark. It was about […]
[…] culture of fundamentalism collaborated with the limited opportunities offered in this isolated, rural frontier community. Shiryl Jessop Blackmore (1985), the daughter of Edson and Alyne Jessop, grew up in Short Creek and married into […]
[…] three each (Sager’s and Whitney’s marriages each included a legal first wife); John Bair, Rufus Beech, William Blackhurst, Benjamin Brown, John Butler, Simeon Carter, Benjamin Clapp, Frederick Cox, Charles Dana, George Dykes, David Fullmer, […]
[…] among them and such loving communion with each other. At first we felt like intruders in the black man’s heaven. Only those of us who had known such spirit at some time in our […]