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This weekend, Latinos across the world are celebrating Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead. It's a holiday where people honor and remember their deceased loved ones. Celebrated on Nov. 1-2, the holiday originated in Mexico. People believe that during this period, the spirits of the dead temporarily come back to the land of the living.
Wataru "Wat" Misaka was known as a better bowler than basketball player in his hometown of Ogden, Utah. But it was his skills on the court that would lead to college success and ultimately a historic contract with the New York Knicks, making him the first nonwhite professional basketball player in the NBA.
Utahans are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad. They are also honoring the hundreds and thousands of Chinese workers who actually completed the job. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Railroad tracks from the East Coast and the West Coast met for the first time in 1869 in northern Utah.
Robin Radcliff has her strategies to deal with distractions when she needs to study for her college-level classes: earplugs and headphones to muffle whatever clatter is happening around her. But the noises Radcliff needs to drown out aren't the typical loud dorm mates.
The hungry goats - more than 50 of them - are staring at Ismael Mohammed. But he's ready. On a recent cold and muddy Saturday afternoon at the East African Refugee Goat Project's ranch, Mohammed locks the goats into their corrals so he can lay out the grains, wheat and hay for them to eat.
The level of excitement and fun was unmistakable on a recent Tuesday in Jeremy Reynoso's kindergarten class at Meadowlark Elementary School in Salt Lake City. As the school year came to a close and with most of their lessons behind them, Reynoso let the students have time to play with building blocks, dig in a sandbox or practice their math skills on tablets.
The opera singer draws her breathe, and exhales. Then, a powerful voice bursts from her core. "You now sue and you now win on my son's broken back." It's a voice she inherited from her grandmother who encouraged her to sing while they worked in the fields of Lesotho in southern Africa.
“Life’s Just Hard” follows two child abuse survivors’ struggle to overcome their pasts. They discover while they may never find closure, there is life after violence—one they are responsible for creating. Won the 2017 Nevada Women’s Film Festival Student Filmmaker of the Year Award.
When Kholoud Abou Arida, Moawiyah Bilal and their three children arrived in Salt Lake City in 2014 after fleeing their war-torn homeland in Syria, they were a different kind of Utah pioneer. With no other Syrian refugee families like theirs in Utah, according to State Department statistics, they felt alone with few if any other refugees who could understand the circumstances.