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This week in Mormon Land: A rediscovered African American Last Supper and Romney’s lonely battle

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Latter-day Saint scriptures talk about hidden treasures, and one recently was found in a former church meetinghouse.

Crews transforming a Baptist-turned-Mormon-church into an acting conservatory in a Washington, D.C., neighborhood, the Washingtonian reports, uncovered a large sculpture of an African American Last Supper that had been tucked behind drywall for more than a decade.