NORTHAMPTON In a perfect world, Dr. Ira Helfand would not earn recognition for his tireless advocacy for the elimination of nuclear weapons because they’d already be eliminated.But until the day comes, the Northampton resident activist continues to.
After years of joining arms with Black leaders to call for greater racial and ethnic harmony, President Russell M. Nelson will receive the first Gandhi-King-Mandela Peace Prize next month from Morehouse College, a historically Black school in Atlanta.
The Gandhi-King-Mandela Peace Prize from Morehouse College honors the Latter-day Saint leader for promoting “positive social transformation through nonviolent means.”