| Updated: 2:13 p.m.
Starting this summer, Utahns will be able to pick a new license plate honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
Sen. Luz Escamilla (D-Salt Lake City), who co-sponsored a bill for the plate in the state’s 2020 legislative session, said it is the perfect time for the plate to be released because King’s message of equality and justice is needed in the United States.
“We lack tolerance,” she said. “His message needs . to come back.”
The new plate, which features different hands joining together around a drawing of the state, was designed by 18-year-old Eleanor Smith, a senior at Timpview High School.