In April 2023, Morehouse College, a historically Black college in Georgia, honored President Russell M. Nelson with the first Gandhi-King-Mandela Peace Prize. 

President Nelson began building bridges with the NAACP in 2018 with a joint call for greater civility and racial harmony in society. 

Now, on President Nelson’s 100th birthday, the choirs sang together as another link in this growing friendship. 

Lawrence E. Carter Sr., founding dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel presented President Nelson with the Peace Prize. He attended Monday’s concert. 

“Tonight, I drew inspiration from the diversity of that stage,” Dr. Carter said. “And like the scripture says, [upon] which President Nelson has built his ministry and also Joseph Smith Jr., Black and white, Jew and Gentile, men and women. This text affirms that God is coming from a place of love. No scorecard, not judgmental, unconditional and all conditional forgiveness and mercy. If the Christians can come from that place, we will all be Latter-day Saints.” 

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