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Black Mormons celebrated — some even wept for joy — as their church updated an earlier anti-racism statement Tuesday and pointedly disavowed groups that promote white supremacy. “It has been ...
White savior movies have had their moment, gaining prominence during the 1960s when Hollywood built an assembly line of highly popular productions telling skewed stories about the Black experience.
Alice Faulkner Burch thought it would be easy to find Black Latter-day Saints to write essays about their faith for a volume she was editing for Deseret Book, the publishing house owned and ...
There was intense power in their sermons, one that was complemented by the soft presence of a “Black Jesus,” a savior ... ‘white and delightsome,’” the committee wrote. LDS Church ...
For a film celebrating an iconic American abolitionist, “Harriet” is getting a lot of criticism from the black community ... only perpetuates the “white savior” concept.
a Black Ugandan, and Kelsey Nielsen, an American who describes herself as a “white savior in recovery,” push the charges substantially further, accusing Bach of conducting medical experiments ...
whereas 12 Years a Slave faced criticism for being yet another film to perpetuate the “white savior” cliché in cinema, in Belle, the beleaguered black protagonist does something novel ...
As a white adoptive mother of two Black sons, I found Ms. Spiers’s piece ... She is absolutely correct that “white savior syndrome” is nothing more than white supremacy in softened guise.
Those questions are a central focus of the three-part HBO documentary series “Savior Complex,” directed ... the internet love stories that are black and white, it’s this or that.