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A homeless mother of 10, Edna Cox, 63, died on the streets of Provo on Jan. 1, having succumbed to the elements.

A visiting volleyball player heard a racist heckler. LDS history sets the rest of the story apart.

A new monument at This Is the Place Heritage Park tells the stories of four Black pioneers who arrived in modern-day Utah 175 years ago.

A new monument honoring early Black pioneers of Utah will be dedicated at This is the Place State Park in timing with the 175th anniversary of the first wagon company’s 1847 arrival in the Salt Lake Valley.

| Updated: May 13, 2021, 3:53 p.m. In the mid-1980s, Darius Gray, a leading Black Latter-day Saint, met Don Harwell in the parking lot of an Allied store in Murray. Because seeing another Black man in the mostly white suburbs of Salt Lake City was rare at the time, Gray strolled over to introduce himself and chat. They soon discovered both were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — a serendipitous meeting that would launch a decades-long friendship and influence generations of the church’s Black members. And one of Harwell’s grandsons is named for his friend — ...