[…] (including homosexual, transgender, and intersex) and what was happening in the mid-twentieth century when Church doctrine precluded black males from ordination to the priesthood. It became clear during the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s that […]
[…] The answer came soon. Flames leaped skyward from the guts of an overturned car, one of those black, official-looking older sedans that news casts show shuttling Chinese leaders here and there. Students from the […]
I have been deeply comforted that Dialogue exists, that it’s there as a strong voice for things that need to be said.” – Carol Lynn Pearson
Mark your calendars for October 8 & 9 for a special conference exploring “ Black, White, and Mormon: A Conference on the Evolving Status of Black Saints within the Mormon Fold.” First, on October 8, […]
[…] Latter-day Saint history: Alice Faulkner Burch, editor of My Lord, He Calls Me: Stories of Faith by Black American Latter-day Saints (Deseret Book) W. Paul Reeve, historian and author of Religion of a Different […]
[…] Utah,” Utah Baby Namer, accessed June 14, 2008, https://www.utahbabynamer.com/. Mansfield, “It’s Wraylynn.” Rebecca Bateman, “Naming Patterns in Black Seminole Ethnogenesis,” Ethnohistory 49, no. 2 (2002): 227–57. Christy Karras, “Different Is Good for Utah Names,” […]
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[…] at BYU have reached our ears here. Considering the official and unofficial discrimination at the “Y” in the past it is not unexpected. (Actually one boycott lead er was from a black LDS family in Oakland)….
[…] if you haven’t yet), we read, “Today, the Church disavows the theories advanced in the past that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor or curse, or that it reflects unrighteous actions in […]
[…] happened on September 15, 1969. Exactly one month later, October 15, 1969, the consequential protest of the Black Fourteen began when Willie Black, president of the Black Student Alliance at the University of Wyoming, […]