In June of 1978, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced what they called a revelation on the priesthood of their faith. Up until that time, black members were not allowed to fully participate in the rites and rituals of Mormonism. Race has been a complicated issue in the LDS Church. Here's a collection of stories and conversations that aim at making sense of it through the lens of theology, history, and the experience of today's Latter-day Saints.

Race and the Making of the Mormon People, June 5, 2018 RadioWest Guest: Max Perry Mueller

Black and Mormon Today, June 1, 2018

RadioWest Guests: Lee Hale, LaShawn Williams, James Jones

As The LDS Church Celebrates Its Black Mormon History Many Still Grapple With A Painful Past, June 1, 2018

Lee Hale for KUER News

Mormon Church Celebration of 40 Years of Black Priesthood Brings Up Painful Past, May 31, 2018

KUER's Lee Hale for NPR

The Mormon Struggle for Whiteness, June 8, 2015

RadioWest Guest: Paul Reeve

Revisiting Blacks and the Priesthood, December 20, 2013

RadioWest Guests: Marvin Perkins, Margaret Blair Young, Russell Stevenson, John Dehlin

Black Mormon: The Story of Elijah Ables, August 21, 2013

RadioWest Guest: Russell Stevenson

Nobody Knows: Blacks and the Mormon Priesthood, June 11, 2008

RadioWest Guests: Darius Gray, Margaret Blair Young, Michael Quinn

Black and Mormon, October 25, 2004

RadioWest Guests: Darron Smith, Newell G. Bringhurst, Cardell Jacobsen

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