Letters to the Editor
July 30, 2024[…] concept requires that we go beyond the immediately provable action to the more subtle attitude. Tell a black man he’s free, but deny him access to certain jobs or residential areas – then read James […]
[…] concept requires that we go beyond the immediately provable action to the more subtle attitude. Tell a black man he’s free, but deny him access to certain jobs or residential areas – then read James […]
[…] come to believe that laissez faire means the same thing as “free agency,” an important L.D.S. concept dating from Jacksonian days, which emphasizes the eternally redemptive value of individual freedom of choice. They tell […]
[…] not expecting the Corporation of the President to be as progressive as Pope Francis, or even the Community of Christ. I’m not holding my breath for a frameable document called “The Kindred: A Proclamation […]
[…] the Disinherited. Among Thurman’s key insights is his concept of the inward sea, or soul. As a Black man growing up in the segregated American South, Thurman is no stranger to oppression and race-based […]
[…] below to see the special one year anniversary issue in Summer 1979): Fall 1984: Mormon Priesthood and Black Brazilians by Mark L. Grover Fall 1990: Separate but Equal? Black Branches, Genesis Groups, or Integrated […]
[…] the Goddess, Anne Baring and Jules Cashford emphasize the important correspondence between the goddess Sophia and the Black Madonna in late medieval tradition: “Black is the colour that is associated with Wisdom, as the […]
[…] of the content bordered on Illuminati/Heyerdahl-level speculation, especially the chapter on the Tunguska event titled “Did a Black Hole Hit Siberia?” complete with a nightmare-inducing illustration. But all sensationalism aside, these were my first […]
[…] grew up ashamed of who I was. This dark skin, I was told, was a curse. My black eyes and thick black hair were not the idealized beauty of blue and wispy yellow. There […]
[…] Mel was a University of Wyoming football player–one of fourteen removed from the team after wearing black arm bands to protest BYU and the LDS Church’s priesthood/temple restrictions. In this conversation, they discuss […]
[…] the homes of our colored (Negro) members of record! And when Church members translate whatever sanction a black skin imposes within the Church into their daily lives and will not (for instance) sell a […]