Black Utahns offer ideas for policy changes in emergency meeting with Utah Gov. Gary Herbert

During a meeting of the state’s Multicultural and Martin Luther King Jr. commissions Wednesday, members of Utah’s black community spoke for more than two hours about the injustices they’ve faced because of the color of their skin and provided policymakers with specific ideas to address systemic racism in the state.The emergency gathering, called by Gov. Gary Herbert and Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, comes at a time of local and national unrest over the death of George Floyd, a black ma