[…] inclusive LDS Church for persons of African ancestry. He took dramatic steps to both convert and retain Black Latter-day Saints. It was less a change in how Smith read scripture and more about the […]
[…] over work, he started graduate school at Union Theological Seminary, where he’s currently studying Religion & The Black Experience and Social Ethics under philosopher, theologian, and activist Dr. Cornel West as well as leading […]
November 22: Daylin Amesimeku on Ether 6-11 Daylin is Chair Elect for the BYU Black Alumni Society and Dialogue Foundation Board Member. She received her BS in Exercise Science from BYU in 2012 and […]
[…] with her husband. Throughout her life, community involvement has been deeply important to her, especially as a Black woman and daughter of an immigrant. Tinesha is an honors graduate of Brigham Young University with […]
[…] in Antebellum Utah. He is Project Manager and General Editor of an award-winning digital database, Century of Black Mormons, designed to name and identify all known Black Latter-day Saints baptized into the faith between […]
[…] a lively seventh-grade class at the Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Dorchester, bordering Roxbury’s all- Black neighborhood. My four roommates all worked in Cambridge or Boston. My bedroom fronted Magazine Street. I […]
[…] an adult, I learned that 1993 represented a kind of death for members of the Mormon studies community. Since the 1970s, Latter-day Saint women had been challenging the limited role the Church provided for […]
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[…] each side fresh flower at its feet. No, not by the veterans’ memorial— What even was the Black Hawk War? Oh that. No, not by the new grandparent grave ten kids clean-cut and temple-topped. […]
[…] marry and lacked any desire to serve; I accepted without question policies like church history like banning Black members from having the priesthood, polygamy, priesthood power and leadership positions given only to men, restrictions […]