New film 'Jane & Emma' captures the friendship between a black convert and the beloved wife of Mormonism's founder - Salt Lake Tribune

New film 'Jane & Emma' captures the friendship between a black convert and the beloved wife of Mormonism's founder Salt Lake Tribune Many modern Mormons see black LDS pioneer Jane Manning James as heroic. What they may not know is what an unlikely, even risky, friendship the 19th-century free black member had with the first lady of Mormonism, Emma Smith. In an era when tensions ...