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In 1969, the University of Wyoming football program kicked 14 Black players off the team for wanting to protest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policy at the time excluding Black men from the priesthood. Now, the Church has announced a partnership with the Black 14 Philanthropy to distribute food to various communities. KUER’s Caroline Ballard spoke with Dr. LaShawn Williams, a social worker, a church member and co-founder of the group Black LDS Legacy, about the move and what it means for racial justice in the Church.
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Masks are widely considered one of the most effective tools for controlling the spread of COVID-19. But they’re not perfect. One Utah company thinks it can make some improvements.
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Utah Sen. Jake Anderegg, R-Lehi, is pursuing a bill that would allow governments to donate land to affordable housing projects and use property tax to subsidize low income people’s rents.
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Line crews on the Navajo Nation are rushing to connect over 500 homes to power before the end of the year. The project is funded through the tribe’s federal CARES Act funds, which expire on Dec. 31.
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COVID-19 outbreaks at schools across the Wasatch Front are causing major disruptions to public education. It's always been a challenge for teachers to stay home when sick, but now they have to. And it's making their jobs even harder.
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Students at Utah colleges and universities are expected to be tested weekly for COVID-19 starting next semester, under the governor’s state of emergency order. But Dixie State University said they don’t have enough tests to do that.
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Utah Agriculture Department Pledges To Improve Integrity And Transparency After Critical State AuditTop leadership at the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food failed to report conflicts of interest, used government resources for personal trips and possibly gave preferential treatment when awarding the state’s first cannabis-growing licenses, according to a scathing report the Utah Office of the State Auditor released Wednesday. The department’s new leadership says they take the concerns seriously and will be implementing changes to improve transparency and control.
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Utah doctors have one recommendation for families this holiday season: Don’t spend Thanksgiving with people who don’t live under the same roof. But if people choose to meet anyway, they offer some advice on how to limit infections.
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Native American Utahns shared stories of losing family members Wednesday night with a state task force formed to study the missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis. But the group has only met twice so far because of COVID-19 and few people showed up to testify.
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Pulitzer-winning composer Anthony Davis based You Have The Right To Remain Silent,released this weekas a virtual performance, on his own experience with police.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Ellie Murray, an epidemiologist at Boston University, about small social gatherings' role in coronavirus outbreaks and whether they should be the focus of restrictions.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly checks back in with Kelly Fields, owner of New Orleans restaurant Willa Jean, to discuss how her business is doing amid new coronavirus outbreaks.
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President Trump pardoned turkeys on Tuesday, making his first public comments since acknowledging that the transition is going ahead. Meanwhile, President-elect Joe Biden unveiled his cabinet picks.
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Liz and Joe Yamada met as kids at a WWII internment camp and spent the rest of their lives together. They both died in May, days apart: Liz from COVID-19 and Joe from complications from dementia.
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