When I was in the eighth grade, I wanted my yellow skin to turn white. I wished for my coarse black hair to change into long golden locks and my slanted brown eyes to turn round and blue. I yearned to become an all- American girl with freckles on her cheeks and a last name [...]
The Color of Me
by Caroline Tung Richmond
Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons
by Shelah Miner
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 [...]
Faces of Latter-day Saint Women: A Conversation with Margaret Blair Young
by Shelah Miner
I first got to know Margaret Blair Young—writer, BYU writing instructor, and co-creator of the documentary Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons—in the fall of 1996, when I was a student at BYU’s London study abroad program. Back then, I knew Margaret as “Sister Young,” wife of Bruce, a Shakespeare professor in charge [...]