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Provo demonstrators protest in wake of George Floyd's death

May 31, 2020 12:00 AM
Hundreds of demonstrators took to downtown Provo Saturday evening to join much of the country in protest over the death of George Floyd.
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HJR8: Committee votes to remove slavery reference from Utah's Constitution

February 07, 2019 12:00 AM
The Utah House Judiciary Committee decided it was time to remove slavery from the Utah Constitution as constituents questioned how it got there in the first place.
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How MLK might react to today's civil rights movements

January 15, 2018 12:00 AM
The Rev. France A. Davis recalled participating in the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama as both exciting and scary — “exciting in that we knew we were making changes; scary because we didn’t ever know for sure how safe we were,” Davis said.
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Students, community discuss Black Lives Matter

August 10, 2017 12:00 AM
It was a bright, cool day when three female BYU students walked into the open-aired grove located in the middle of the Joseph Smith Building on the campus of Brigham Young University. One student had a Black Lives Matter shirt gripped in her hand, another wearing a shirt that had huge letters across the chest area that read “Nah,” and at the lower end of the shirt that read “Rosa Parks.” All three students opened up about their experiences of being Black Lives Matter supporters, black students at a majority-caucasian campus and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Shooting fires up two-day protests in Charlotte

September 22, 2016 12:00 AM
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Opinion: Open discussion on racial differences would benefit BYU

August 17, 2016 12:00 AM
Deborah Alexis poses in a selfie. Alexis argues that a forum for open discussion on race would be helpful for BYU students.
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Prosecutors drop all remaining charges in Freddie Gray case

July 27, 2016 12:00 AM
Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, at podium, holds a news conference near the site where Freddie Gray, depicted in mural in background, was arrested after her office dropped the remaining charges against three Baltimore police officers awaiting trial in Gray's death, in Baltimore, Wednesday, July 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)
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Opinion Outpost July 14

July 14, 2016 12:00 AM
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Obama says America is horrified over Dallas attack

July 08, 2016 12:00 AM
President Barack Obama pauses as he makes a statement on the fatal police shootings of two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota after arriving in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, July 8, 2016. Obama traveled to Poland to attend the NATO summit and then will travel on to Spain. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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The hajj journey of black Americans 50 years after Malcolm X

October 19, 2015 12:00 AM
In this Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015 photo, Imam Suleimaan Hamed, left, speaks to members of the Atlanta Masjid of Al Islam mosque in Atlanta. Members of the mosque gathered to celebrate a group of pilgrims who will make the annual Hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. (Associated Press)
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