It's critical that we have healthy relationships with law enforcement and our community, protesting has its place, but after the protests, then what ? We got ta talk solutions and being able to sit down and converse with people who you may not agree with... If you don't have that, we'll never get to a place to where we can actually resolve the situations that we're facing as a community.

Marvin Perkins

Marvin Perkins is an American Latter-day Saint record and video producer. As an African-American he has sought to change the perceptions of Latter-day Saints towards African-Americans, and African-Americans towards Latter-day Saints. Along with Darius Gray, Perkins has produced a set of DVDs titled Blacks in the Scriptures. He also has written a paper titled "How to Reach African-Americans". In June 2008, CNN aired an interview with Perkins, in which he was able to vocally explain his faith in the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Perkins was raised in other Christian faiths and joined the LDS Church in his late teenage years. Perkins has made CDs of hymns. Perkins is involved with public affairs for the LDS Church's Genesis Group, a social organization for black Latter-day Saints.

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