"Black and Mormon"

By The Daily Dish

Blackandmormon

It isn't easy - even now. Below is a YouTubed 2004 news story on a black professor at Brigham Young University, Darron Smith, who edited a book on the LDS church and its history of racial discrimination. At the time of the book's publication, "Black and Mormon," Smith was a member in good standing in the church. BYU fired him thereafter. Here's a Mormon blog entry on him as well.

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