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April 2022

April 25, 2022

Learning Tshiluba (or any new language) Part 1

The first step in learning anything is love. A parent coos to the child, sings...

April 05, 2022

Ancestors, aka Zombies

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

March 2022

March 05, 2022

The Second Coming

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

January 2022

January 26, 2022

On a Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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

December 2021

December 02, 2021

Report on our Trip to the DR-Congo, 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 (Poem from “I Am Jane”)

Not a Curse but a Calling It’s not a curse but a gift to...

September 2021

September 04, 2021

Cort McMurray’s Message

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

July 2021

July 12, 2021

Texts during the Cincinnati Miracle

Text from Darius: 5:35 p.m., Friday July 2 Contacted Jed Woodworth from Church History Dept....

July 04, 2021

Len and Mary Return to Tell Their Story

I left Utah on Thursday, July 2nd at 3:15 p.m. and flew to Denver, planning...

June 2021

June 30, 2021

The Lumumba Journey

Casting: At this point (the anniversary of the independence of the...

October 2020

October 03, 2020

Julia Groberg Blair Obituary

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

August 2020

August 21, 2020

Did they take “Under God” out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

No. Here's the Democratic National Convention pledge on one night. And here. Another night. Apparently, there was...

August 07, 2020

The Judge – Part 5: How it ended

After taking the plea deal, Maye was released from jail. She had spent seven months...

August 06, 2020

The Judge – Part 4: The Plea Deal

Maye's attorneys met with her. This is her description of the meeting. I am pasting...

August 05, 2020

The Judge – Part 3: Meeting with the Public Defender

This is the note I sent to Maye's support team just after she was jailed:...

August 04, 2020

The Judge, Part 2: Silencing

I knew her as a queen--a literal queen, a tiara on her head and roses...

August 03, 2020

The Judge (Part 1)

I will not use the real names of those were involved in this case either...

August 02, 2020

That one time when we fought about white appropriation

I met Darius Gray on July 29th, 1998. We started writing our books about black...

July 2020

July 31, 2020

Allies for Darius – 1965, Provo, Utah

This is from the book Darius Aidan Gray and I wrote, The Last Mile of...

July 30, 2020

The Genesis Group and the Stake Basketball Tournament Finals –that didn’t happen

The Genesis Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized on...

July 28, 2020

The KKK in Alabama and in Utah

Following is an excerpt from the third book in the trilogy of historical fiction which...

July 25, 2020

Our Pioneer Ancestors and Slavery

Pioneer Remembrance Day circa 1886, Willow's Creek, Idaho Green Flake describes slavery: Bishop Simmons introduced...

July 23, 2020

Green and Lizzy: Wedding Gifts

Enslaved people Elizbeth and Green Flake (ages 5 and 10) were given as wedding gifts...

July 20, 2020

Darius Aidan Gray at BYU

A short excerpt from The Last Mile of the Way. Aidan maintained his reveal-nothing smile...

July 19, 2020

Darius Gray in Provo, Utah

Excerpt from The Last Mile of the Way. Everything in this excerpt is true as...

July 17, 2020

Darius: Growing up Black in the 1950s

I am posting daily to invite empathy into Black lives. My main focus is Darius...

July 16, 2020

Gobo Fango and my Family

This is the roster for The Race Horse, a ship which sailed from South Africa...

July 15, 2020

Weeping with Darius as we wrote the auction scene

Darius Gray's grandfather, Louis Gray, was born a slave in Marshall, Missouri in 1858....

July 14, 2020

Young and Gray #2: Writing Slavery

In 1968, conspiracy theories flourished that blacks from California were coming en masse to Utah,...

July 13, 2020

Do you see my people as representatives of Satan?

In 2012, I was teaching LDS Institute in Spanish. Most of my students were from Mexico,...