Film Review During an early scene in the documentary, Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons, Darius Aidan Gray sums up the line he’s walked since he joined the LDS Church in the early sixties, years before he was eligible to hold the priesthood: “I am a proud black man … yet I embraced [...]
Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons
by Shelah Miner
Southern Roots and Grafted Branches
by Katie Stirling
“SOMEONE IN MY FAMILY is coming to visit me,” my mother says, tears spilling out of her eyes as she hangs up the phone. Though this doesn’t sound like something that would normally provoke tears, knowing my mother’s story, her roots—and thus mine—illuminates the present moment. Unlike my dad, who grew up in North Avondale, Colorado, [...]