This week's posts will highlight the small and often overlooked group of African American Mormons who have been members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) almost since its founding on April 6, 1830. Most Mormons are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The church has never kept official records on the race of its … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Blacks and the Mormon Church
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Monday Open Thread: Africa’s Great Civilizations
GOOD MONDAY MORNING, P.O.U.! This week we'll look at Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s six-part series, Africa's Great Civilizations, which recently aired on PBS. PART I: ORIGINS … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Africa’s Great Civilizations
Saturday Open Thread: Another Set of Black History Factoids
Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Jr. (July 13, 1928 – August 23, 2003) served as the Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1984 to 1996. Nix was the first African-American Chief Justice of any state’s highest court, and the first African American to be elected to statewide office in Pennsylvania. He served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for 24 … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Another Set of Black History Factoids
Friday Open Thread: Another Set of Black History Factoids
The Union Transportation Company was chartered on August 29, 1905, in response to Tennessee’s newly-imposed streetcar segregation law (July 1905) and a black boycott of the city’s main streetcar transportation system, the Nashville Transit Company. … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Another Set of Black History Factoids