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Today we talk about Juneteenth and USU's corresponding events. We're joined by Cree Taylor, Lecturer in the USU English Department and event organizer, and filmmaker Mauli Junior Bonner, whose film, “His Name is Green Flake,” will be screened on Saturday.
Movies about Latter-day Saints have lately been true-crime stories. There are so many better stories to tell than the latest planned project, “Sinner v. Saints.”
Yahosh Bonner was born the fifth of eight children in Las Vegas, Nevada. Yahosh comes from an accomplished musical heritage. He currently is a cohost on BYUtv’s Family Rules. He also is the Athletic Director at American Heritage School. In addition, he is a recording performing artist. Yahosh has shared the stage with Gladys Knight, Steven Sharp Nelson from The Piano Guys, Alex Boyé, and many others. Yahosh's love of music is rooted in his faith. He looks forward to sharing the gift of music “to bring the spirit into every performance." Recently, he stared in the movie called Gr...
| Updated: May 15, 2021, 12:37 a.m. Green Flake, an enslaved worker and Latter-day Saint from North Carolina, arrived in the Salt Lake Valley with two other Black pioneers July 22, 1847 — two days before Mormon prophet Brigham Young supposedly declared, “This is the place.” Flake, Hark Lay and Oscar Crosby Smith scouted the valley, tilled the ground, planted crops, and laid down a trail for their enslavers and vanguard wagons that soon would arrive. The three are memorialized at This Is the Place Heritage Park, near the mouth of Emigration Canyon in the eastern foothills, as well as do...
Courtesy of Film The legal drama executive produced by Shaquille O'Neal and directed by Youssef Delara will play Canada's biggest Black film showcase. The courtroom drama Foster Boy, starring Matthew Modine, Louis Gossett Jr. and Shane Paul McGhie is set to open the virtual Toronto Black Film Festival on Feb. 10. The indie, executive produced by Shaquille O'Neal and directed by Youssef Delara, will launch the 9th edition of Canada's biggest showcase of Black cinema, organizers said on Tuesday. And the festival will close with Mia Donovan's Dope is Death, a documentary about Dr. Mutulu Shaku...