The College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia, kicked off Black History Month with a newly installed exhibit honoring members of the Wyoming Black 14 earlier this week. In conjunction with the new exhibit, the Hall invited BYU’s School of Communications (byucomms) to show its documentary “The Black 14: Healing Hearts and Feeding Souls.”
The film delves into the 1969 experience when members of the University of Wyoming football team were removed for considering a protest in a game against BYU. The documentary highlights the subsequent decades of reconciliation and collaboration between the Black 14, BYU, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The ongoing partnership has resulted in substantial contributions of food donations to food pantries in the players’ hometowns.
Carly Wasserlein, a BYU senior who did much of the videography for the documentary, said the experiential learning opportunity the project provided was foundational to her time at BYU and was reflec...