Black Ladies of America: Will You Let These Mormons Sit at Your Lunch Counter? [Utah]

Jeanette Bennett, the Utah Valley Magazine editor who attracted some attention recently for appending the headline “Women of Color” to a photo of her all-white staff, has penned a thoughtful and heartfelt response to her critics on her personal blog, Jeanette Gazette. The upshot: As a Mormon, she knows what it’s like to be black, and all she was doing is asking black and latino ladies if she can be a woman of color, too. Oh, Jeanette. More »