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  Year after infuriating year, the Utah State Legislature votes on new bills targeting trans people and DEI efforts, bills like H.B. 257 and H.B. 261 being their newest forms of terrorization. Meanwhile, they do nothing to improve Utahns’ quality of life, completely ignoring pressing issues like the drying Great Salt Lake and the conditions...

After LDS leader Bradley Wilcox delivered a racist speech about Black church members, Sebastian Stewart-Johnson filmed a response video and posted it on TikTok.

Part two of a two-part interview. Celebrating New Orleans as hip-hop turns 50.

Part one of a two-part interview. Celebrating New Orleans as hip-hop turns 50.

Christian Cooper's superhero name is Captain Cry Bully.

A member of the “Black Menaces,” a group of Black Brigham Young University students who regularly share on social media video interviews with white classmates, said that a university staff member confronted him while he was conducting an interview last week and that a classmate harassed him immediately afterward.

Sebastian Stewart-Johnson, a senior studying political science at Brigham Young University and the co-founder of the Black Menaces, says he was recording a social media interview on Sept. 19 when a staff member threatened to call 911 if he didn’t stop recording.

Current BYU students share their perspectives on what the history of LGBTQ+ activism at BYU could reveal about the future.

A TikTok crew of Black BYU students is raking in millions of views asking fellow students about race, identity and politics on campus.

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