Race
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Joseph Fielding Smith’s Evolving Views on Race: The Odyssey of a Mormon Apostle-President
Listen to the Out Loud Interview about this article here. In 1963, Joseph Henderson, a non-Mormon from New York, wrote a pointed letter to LDS Church apostle Joseph Fielding Smith asking him about the racial…
Wrestling with the Racism of the Book of Mormon
A sermon wrestling with the curse of blackness in the Book of Mormon. Note: The Dialogue Foundation provides the web format of article as a courtesy. Please note that there may be unintentional differences from…
Racism
The only way that you can both help the poor and needy and preach the gospel is if you let go of racism “and help others to do the same.”
“There Is No Equality”: William E. Berrett, BYU, and Healing the Wounds of Racism in the Latter-day Saint Past and Present
2019: Rebecca de Schweinitz, “There is no Equality”: William E Berrett, BYU, and healing the Wounds of Racism in the Latter- Day Saint Past and Present” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 52 No. 3 (2019):62–83. De…
Interview: Father-Daughter Interview on Blacks and the Priesthood
A beautiful interview wherein Christensen said “If we look at an organization being a circle, there are a lot of people who are trying really, really hard to stay right there, just on the edge.…
Roundtable: The Black Cain in White Garments
Jackson explains “The Church refused to grant the Black body whole recognition and divinity. To Nephi, I was not fair and delightsome. To Joseph, I was a violator of the most sacred principles of society,…
Roundtable: Shifting Tides: A Clarion Call for Inclusion and Social Justice
“What can we do to help and make a difference in the fight for racial and social justice?” McCoy responds to the BYU students who asked these questions which he brought up in an annual…
Roundtable: When Did You Become Black?
After taking a genelogy DNA test, Houston finds some African ancestory. “Where to begin in answering all those questions? But at the most basic level, I simply liked that I was from Africa.
Roundtable: A Balm in Gilead: Reconciling Black Bodies within a Mormon Imagination
“As much we may hope that one would disregard the explicitly racial teachings of the past, the significance of corporeality in the Mormon imagination is such that Mormonism’s racial wounds run deep. With-out a thoughtful…
One Devout Mormon Family’s Struggle with Racism
This article tells the impact of LDS racial teachings on a single family history, the Marshalls, from Alabama in the 19th c. to Filmore, Utah in the present.