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April 2022

April 05, 2022
The word "zombie" probably came from Africa. "Nzambe" means God in many African languages, including...

March 2022

March 05, 2022
Djemba and Marie weren’t speaking. They hadn’t spoken for a week, not since Djemba had...

January 2022

January 26, 2022
Small and Simple Things   A decade ago, I was writing to LDS missionaries in...

December 2021

December 02, 2021
3 Weeks in the DRC We landed in Kinshasa late on November 2, 2021, just...

October 2021

October 12, 2021
Not a Curse but a Calling   It’s not a curse but a gift to...

September 2021

September 04, 2021
I received this from Cort McMurray in August, 2020--a year before his untimely death. He...

July 2021

July 12, 2021
Text from Darius: 5:35 p.m., Friday July 2 Contacted Jed Woodworth from Church History Dept....
July 04, 2021
I left Utah on Thursday, July 2nd at 3:15 p.m. and flew to Denver, planning...

June 2021

June 30, 2021
Casting:         At this point (the anniversary of the independence of the...

October 2020

October 03, 2020
Obituary Julia Gay Groberg Blair passed away at home on Monday, September 21, 2020 in...

August 2020

August 21, 2020
No. Here's the Democratic National Convention pledge on one night. And here.  Another night. Apparently, there was...
August 07, 2020
After taking the plea deal, Maye was released from jail. She had spent seven months...
August 06, 2020
Maye's attorneys met with her. This is her description of the meeting. I am pasting...
August 05, 2020
This is the note I sent to Maye's support team just after she was jailed:...
August 04, 2020
I knew her as a queen--a literal queen, a tiara on her head and roses...
August 03, 2020
I will not use the real names of those were involved in this case either...
August 02, 2020
I met Darius Gray on July 29th, 1998. We started writing our books about black...

July 2020

July 31, 2020
This is from the book Darius Aidan Gray and I wrote, The Last Mile of...
July 30, 2020
The Genesis Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized on...
July 28, 2020
Following is an excerpt from the third book in the trilogy of historical fiction which...
July 25, 2020
Pioneer Remembrance Day circa 1886, Willow's Creek, Idaho Green Flake describes slavery: Bishop Simmons introduced...
July 23, 2020
Enslaved people Elizbeth and Green Flake (ages 5 and 10) were given as wedding gifts...
July 20, 2020
A short excerpt from The Last Mile of the Way. Aidan maintained his reveal-nothing smile...
July 19, 2020
Excerpt from The Last Mile of the Way. Everything in this excerpt is true as...
July 17, 2020
I am posting daily to invite empathy into Black lives. My main focus is Darius...
July 16, 2020
This is the roster for The Race Horse, a ship which sailed from South Africa...
July 15, 2020
  Darius Gray's grandfather, Louis Gray, was born a slave in Marshall, Missouri in 1858....
July 14, 2020
In 1968, conspiracy theories flourished that blacks from California were coming en masse to Utah,...
July 13, 2020
In 2012, I was teaching LDS Institute in Spanish. Most of my students were from Mexico,...

June 2020

June 19, 2020
Today, June 19th, 2020, I give you the excerpt from The Last Mile of the...
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