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Harvard scholar is sharing Haitian Latter-day Saint history


SALT LAKE CITY Janan Graham-Russell joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2010 at the age of 21 while working as a graphic artist.
Her artist s eye has led her on a years-long journey exploring depictions of Black people in church spaces and inspired her to write about her experiences in the faith.
During one of her first visits to the temple in Washington D.C. a city with one of the highest populations of Black people in the U.S. Graham-Russell, who is Black, noticed a portrait of a white Jesus surrounded entirely by white angels.
In my opinion, art is so, so much, a sort of manifestation of cultural attitudes oftentimes subconsciously, Graham-Russell said. If something like this could be hung in these sacred places for Mormons, you know, what does it mean? ....

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