Tamu Smith is the co-founder of the blog Sistas in Zion. She is a freelance writer and film producer. Her most recent projects include the book Can I Get an Amen? Celebrating the Lord in Everyday Life, formerly known as Diary of Two Mad Black Mormons, as well as the Jane and Emma movie, in which she and her Sistas in Zion cohort (and partner in crime) Zandra Vranes helped write and produce alongside seasoned writer Melissa L. Larson. While she enjoys participating in the type of tongue-in-cheek humor found her website sistasinzion.com, Tamu finds true fulfillment in looking beyond the surface and "celebrating the Lord in her everyday life." Tamu is ever known as a "busy body," she finds a way to squeeze every second out of every hour daily. She feels fortunate to have the type of husband who supports her “crazy." It is because of his enduring support she's able to wear the many hats she wears: writer, actress, committee member, activist, teacher, wife, mother, and her favorite to date, Ya-Ya (grandma). Tamu resides in Provo, Utah, with her husband, Keith, and a few good kids.

Katrina Wales Maxton is a native to Angus, Scotland. She embraced an opportunity to work in the United States for several years before joining the Church in California. After her conversion, the Lord soon called Katrina to serve a full-time mission in the New Jersey Morristown Mission, which she loved.

This stunning arrangement created by LDS artists Jenny Oaks Baker and Jason Lyle Black seems like something right out of a fairytale. Written by Jason Lyle Black, "Champs-Élysées" is an original song from his album Piano Preludes which recently topped the iTunes charts.

Soon after anLDS rapper beat out stars like Drake, J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar by landing third on the iTunes hip-hop charts, another LDS artist has topped the iTunes charts. Pianist Jason Lyle Black has come in at no. 1 for his debut album, Piano Preludes, on the New Age charts.

A new monument honoring early Black pioneers will be dedicated on Friday, July 22, corresponding with the 175th anniversary of the first wagon company’s 1847 arrival in the Salt Lake Valley.

Speaking at the Marriott Center at Brigham Young University, President Dallin H. Oaks, First Counselor in the First Presidency, renewed Church leaders’ pleas to Latter-day Saints to “root out racism.”

My wife and I recently ran a half marathon.

Llisten for Sochi luge racer Kate Hansen’s commentary on NBC during the luge, bobsled, and skeleton races in Beijing.