The May summit between top leaders of the LDS Church and the NAACP planted seeds of cooperation that are already bearing fruit.
On Sunday night, Mormon general authority Jack N. Gerard announced that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was teaming up with the nation’s oldest civil rights organization on a schooling and jobs push on the East Coast.
“I’m pleased to announce that we will together launch an education and employment initiative with an eye towards national impact beginning in cities like Baltimore, Atlanta and Camden, New Jersey,” Gerard said at the NAACP’s national convention in San Antonio.