Darius Gray
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Darius Gray is an African-American Latter-day Saint speaker and writer.
Gray was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the mid-1960s and then attended Brigham Young University for a year. After that he transferred to the University of Utah.
Gray worked for a time as a journalist.[1]
Gray was a counselor in the presidency of the LDS Church's Genesis Group when it was formed in 1971.[2] He was president of the group from 1997 to 2003. Gray was also the director of the Freedmens Bank Records project for the church's Family History Department. He is a speaker on African-American genealogy, blacks in the Bible and blacks in the LDS Church. He has also written a trilogy with Margaret Blair Young.
Gray has traveled throughout the United States to make presentations. In 2007, he appeared in the PBS documentary, The Mormons.[3] In February 2008, he made an invitation-only presentation at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit that was partly sponsored by New Detroit.[4]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Carole Mikita, [http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=913219 "Romney's Faith an Issue on the National Scene", 2007-02-20, ksl.com, accessed 2008-04-21.
- ^ "The Genesis Group: History of Genesis", ldsgenesisgroup.org, accessed 2008-04-21.
- ^ PBS Frontline TV show video
- ^ The Rhema: Renowned Author and Genealogist Darius A. Gray Presents 'Blacks in the Bible' and 'African American Roots'
