W. Paul Reeve
Mormons know how the Church sanctioned racial exclusion. That policy has a paper trail.
By Jana Riess — March 10, 2023
(RNS) — Paul Reeve's new book argues the decision to ban Blacks from priesthood and the temple began with Brigham Young but wasn't fully entrenched until the early 1900s under Joseph F. Smith.
General Conference would be a good time for the LDS church to apologize to the Black community
By Kristin Lowe — September 28, 2020
(RNS) — ‘Racist statements and policies were once made by prophets and apostles, and we specifically need prophets and apostles to overturn them now,’ says guest columnist Kristin Lowe.
What does a Mormon Pioneer Day look like in the context of Black Lives Matter?
By Jana Riess — July 23, 2020
(RNS) — Instead of congratulating ourselves about how we're no longer actively racist, how about spending this Pioneer Day thinking of changes we can make to be anti-racist in the future?
Forty years on, most US Mormons still believe the racist priesthood/temple ban was God’s will
By Jana Riess — June 11, 2018
It's been 40 years since Mormons changed their racially based priesthood/temple ban. Yet new research shows that even now, most Mormons think the ban was God's will.
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