Blaine Lafreniere
Outbreaks Create Isolation
When living in Chicago years ago, I was involved on a philanthropic mission with the historical leper colony at Kalaupapa on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. What started out to be a single mission to support the final 90 leprosy patients in a community that for 150 years had been home to thousands of patients became a 15-year endeavor.
The community is still occupied by a final few residents, even though now there is a cure for the disease and the mandatory quarantine at the isolated location at Kalaupapa was lifted in 1969.
The extensive publicity and exposure of our efforts brought alarming phone calls even death threats. At the time, there was an awful leprosy racism, and after our visits, we were targeted by individuals and groups. Some made a point to avoid me in stores and gatherings because, to them, I was a heathen spreading a disease.
STANSBURY ISLAND, Utah (KUTV) Abandoned buses. Rusty old pieces of heavy equipment. Giant metal pipes and more. Those are just some of the massive pieces of junk that lay on a dry Great Salt Lake bed next to Stansbury Island. Photographer Robin Pendergrast took a photographic tour of what he says is a self-described junk "graveyard. " Pendergrast described what he saw just to the west of Stansbury Island, saying: Saturday, windy, but a perfect.
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Renee Bright | Headlines via sltrib.com, Photo of John Sulliven by Robin Pendergrast, Photo of Casey Roberston courtesy Casey Robertson
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John Sullivan, 26, and Casey Robertson, 47, faced off over the summer at Black Lives Matter protests.
When Black Lives Matter protests kicked off in Utah in late May, John Sullivan noticed a lot of the leaders were white.
So the Black, 26-year-old, former speedskater decided to start his own organization. He called it Insurgence USA, and he immediately started organizing protests for racial justice.
Filmed this while covering protests in Provo a few hours ago. Full story in the morning on @UniverseBYUpic.twitter.com/nUB6F3faTR Lisi Merkley (@lisimerkley) June 30, 2020