Based in Brazil, Fernanda Ferreira is a science writer who covers a range of STEM (and occasionally non-STEM) topics, from textile conservation to vaccine stockpiles.
In May 2018, a letter was published online and quickly circulated among the Mormon community. In the letter, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apologized for the racial restrictions that denied black Mormons the priesthood as well as participation in certain temple ceremonies from the mid-1800s to 1978. “A lot of people were really excited and emotional,” remembers Janan Graham-Russell, a PhD candidate in the study of religion. “Of course, we then realized that the letter was a hoax.”
