As Sister Julie B. Beck, general Relief Society president, has traveled she has observed the homes of Latter-day Saint women.
Juliana Afulenu of the Hedzranawoe Branch, Lome Togo District, stands near shelf where she keeps her scriptures and other Church materials. …
LDS Church apostle Dallin Oaks presented first lady Michelle Obama with a copy of her family’s genealogy during a short visit to the White House on Wednesday (March 18, 2010) …
Hundreds of enthusiastic genealogists with African or African American roots from across the state gathered Feb. 20 as part of the ninth annual Black Family History Month Symposium. This year’s Community Service Award recipient was Martin Luther King III — son of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr for his desire to carry out his father’s work.
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-413565
See also Eternal Families Worldwide exhibit at DC Temple including artwork from Uganda
See what a new member of Pagedale branch in St. Louis did for a family in need:
http://knowyourneighbor.typepad.com/knowyourneighbor/2009/12/facebook-santa-team.html
“… Mel Hamilton was one of 14 Wyoming football players thrown off the team in 1969 for deciding to wear black armbands in a game against BYU to protest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
… Hamilton is also part of a story about understanding. He is adamant in his position but holds no animosity. He counts Mormons among his friends. His oldest son is now a member of the LDS Church. …
God’s children on the earth today have the opportunity to understand His plan of happiness for them more fully than at any other time.
A few weeks ago Elder Melvin R. Perkins, who is an Area Seventy serving in Alaska, and I stood at the pulpit in front of the congregation of the Vancouver British Columbia Stake in Canada. In a moving voice he invited the Saints to consider the image before them: a descendant of Mormon handcart pioneers and a pioneer convert of the Church from a faraway African nation serving the Lord side by side. …
http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1117-33,00.html
(October 2009 General Conference talk by Elder Joseph W. Sitati of the Seventy)
During a historic 16-day tour of Africa on Aug. 16-31, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve dedicated Cameroon and Rwanda for the preaching of the gospel. In so doing, he became the first known apostle to ever set foot in either nation.
http://www.ldschurchnews.com/gallery/57850/Dedication-blesses-two-African-nations.html
Silas 1st African-American to hold position (in Hattiesburg MS)
Hattiesburg American
August 29, 2009
Randall Silas is the new bishop of a Hattiesburg congregation of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints…
…Silas said he hopes his new position will encourage other blacks to
explore the Mormon church, but “I would hope that no one would base
their spiritual …
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20090829/LIFESTYLE/908290329
On July 20, 2009 when President Thomas S. Monson met with President Barack Obama, it marked only the fourteenth time when an LDS Church president had a meeting in the White House with the President. See …
