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Members of the Black 14 and food bank volunteers pose for a photo together, all wearing green safety vests.

Former college football players team up with the Church to donate food in Atlanta

The Church partnered with the Black 14 Philanthropy and College Football Hall of Fame to donate 36,000 pounds of food.

"It's Because You're Black": Church Article Challenges Our Assumptions, Helps Us Look Forward with Faith

What a powerful testimony from this Latter-day Saint and a fellow sister in the Church: "My faith is in God. . . . I don’t think I could live my life as well or as happily if I weren’t a member of the Church. Thanks to the Savior and His gospel, I can become better and find peace through any struggle I have."

Latter-day Saint Life

First Black man sealed in the Salt Lake Temple shares the moment he heard the 1978 priesthood revelation

By Danielle B. Wagner

In 1967, Isaac Thomas walked onto the Missouri Valley College campus on fraternity pledge night. As one of only 32 black students at the school, he stood out starkly, but, being an outgoing young man fresh from an all-black high school, Thomas didn’t think anything of it. He had never come face to face with the violence and hatred racism breeds—until that night.

Feature Stories

7 teachings on racial harmony from Church leaders in the last year

By LDS Living

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we celebrate a man who dreamed of a better nation—a dream of a nation that would “rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

Fun

"Medium": Are Latter-day Saints Having a Public Conversation Everyone Else Should Be Having?

"By putting this piece out there, Mormons are demonstrating a willingness to have an open, uncomfortable conversation that some churches in America’s Christian community have been meticulously avoiding," Matthew Faraci writes about the new film Jane and Emma, which focuses on the relationship between Emma Smith and one of the first black converts to the Church, Jane Elizabeth Manning James.

At NAACP Luncheon, Elder Stevenson Reiterates “All Are Alike Unto God”; Addresses Printing Error in “Come, Follow Me” Regarding Race

By Lindsey Williams

Last summer, President Russell M. Nelson and NAACP President Derrick Johnson issued a joint invitation for all “to work with greater civility, to eliminate prejudice of all kinds, and focus on important interests that we have in common.”

Lesson Helps

Young Women Lesson 12: The Blessings of the Priesthood

Manual 3; Supplement from "The Power of the Priesthood" by Boyd K. Packer

Podcasts

What led this civil rights activist to join the Church, become the first Black man sealed in Salt Lake Temple

After hearing from a drill instructor at basic training for the Air Force that the Church was racist, Isaac almost stopped his pursuit of the gospel. But after attending a church meeting for the first time with some of his fellow basic training buddies, that all changed.

From the Church

LDS Church condemns past racism 'inside and outside the church'

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a forceful statement Wednesday condemning racism, "including any and all past racism by individuals both inside and outside the church." The statement came in response to a Washington Post political story about Mitt Romney's run for the presidency and his faith's former ban on giving black men the priesthood. The story included reported comments from a popular BYU religion professor that included personal speculation about the former ban. Many Mormons were upset by Professor Randy Bott's reported comments and some considered them racist.

"BuzzFeed" Features Mormons' Responses to the Church's Statement Condemning White Supremacism

By Jim Dalrymple II @ BuzzFeed

After the Church released a statement Tuesday that declared "members who promote or pursue a 'white culture' or white supremacy agenda are not in harmony with the teachings of the Church," many media sources have reported on the statement. Recently, BuzzFeed shared how this statement was celebrated among the majority of the LDS community.