Hello everyone and welcome to another additional Mormon stories podcast. I'm your host John Delinn. It is June 19th, 2024 and we are, I believe this now is seven episodes in to what I think is a groundbreaking series about a

groundbreaking book.

We are covering this book, Second Class Saints, Mormons, and the Struggle for Racial Equality

by Dr. Matt Harris.

We've done six episodes so far.

We're releasing this as its own series both on Spotify and on Apple Podcast.

But we're here to talk about the Mormon Church's priesthood and temple band on members of what the church thought was of African descent.

And you know you'll value this series best if you watch it sequentially.

But today we're going to be starting chapter four

and we're going to be talking about a host of things including sort of this lone

hero of of civil rights and equality. Hugh B. Brown, a member of the First

Presidency, we're going to be talking about the Church in Nigeria.

We're going to be talking about, we already talked about Lil Benyon and Teager Lion.

We're going to be talking about that a bit more. We're going to be talking about George Romney, who ran for president,

Mitt Romney's dad, Stuart Udall, another congressman, and some articles that

came out in Look magazine and the New York Times and a couple of the things,

but we're also going to be talking about what does and doesn't lead the Mormon church leaders to change.

And of course we have Matt Harris here with us and

Herrada is going to be joining us soon.

Before we bring Matt on, I just want to remind people that we are doing a fundraiser to pay Matt

Extra for these very, very important episodes that are absolutely premium content that are worth your time.

Mormon Stories is stepping up to pay out of its own cash pile, you know, a fixed amount of 500 bucks per

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