The responses from white students asked to identify an iconic picture of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black boy who was lynched in Mississippi and helped spur the civil rights movement, are cringeworthy, stumping most who can’t say who it is. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A student answers a question for Kennethia Dorsey of the Black Menaces, at BYU in Provo on Friday, April 8, 2022. The first video the group posted was spurred by the viral comments of a high-profile, white Latter-day Saint leader about Black members of the faith. 6, Brad Wilcox, who is also a religion professor at BYU, was recorded giving a talk at a fireside for congregations in Alpine. Was Brigham Young, the faith’s second president, “a jerk,” he said they often ask him, or were early Latter-day Saints “prejudiced”? In the recording, Wilcox said he gets questions from members who wonder why Black men didn’t get the priesthood until 1978, when church leaders lifted their ban.