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Several moments during the last two years have reflected race-based problems in Loveland — at city council, school and library board meetings, during protests and in Facebook groups. Often, a key point of contention for some residents is whether racism even exists in the city, or ever did.

Prior to World War I, Nevada’s Douglas County adopted an ordinance that prohibited Native Americans from being in the towns of Minden or Gardnerville after sunset — at the risk of jail time or worse.

About a quarter of Utah’s population is made up of racial and ethnic minorities. But a new investigation by the Salt Lake Tribune and Frontline PBS found that a third of the people Utah police shoot at are minorities.

Today, Moscow’s brief history as a probable sundown town seems a continent away. The northern Idaho town of 25,000 saw multiple racial justice protests last year. Black Lives Matter signs line the windows of Moscow’s downtown restaurants and cafes. But some people of color still feel uneasy here.

Sundown towns once drove out people of color or prohibited them from living within city limits. This practice started in the late 19th century, but the impact continues today. In Colorado, Chinese immigrants flocked to the state to find gold. They were tolerated in some mining camps and run out of others.

Census data shows ten years after Robert Marshall’s 1925 lynching, few African Americans remained in Price, Utah.

There’s a gap between ideas parents associate with Critical Race Theory and what scholars say it actually is. Teachers say they don’t teach the theory, but it can be a tool for educators to address disparities between students.

Many communities across the Mountain West were once known as “sundown towns.” Those are places that once had policies to force people of color to leave...

Critical race theory is an academic framework for understanding how racism creates and sustains the many disparities that exist in the country today. The framework is not currently part of curriculum in Utah’s public schools.

The latest Utah news on Tuesday morning, February 23, 2021.

The leaders of Utah’s largest hospitals released a joint statement Tuesday speaking out against systemic racism and vowing to do more to fight it.

Police yielded to the almost entirely white mob of pro-Trump insurrectionists as they stormed the Capitol. Protesters for racial justice see a contrast with how their demonstrations were policed.