Elizabeth Warren ancestry highlights how tribes decide membership
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Jon Rios traces his ancestry to the Pima people of Arizona, but he has no tribal enrollment card and lives hundreds of miles away in Colorado. He has no interest in meeting any...
View ArticleBurned campaign literature shows up on Colorado anti-slavery measure...
Campaign literature on Amendment A, which would remove language from the state constitution that allows slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crimes, was burned Monday afternoon on the...
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Anti-slavery amendment passed, but faced resistance in rural Colorado
Coloradans had a rare opportunity to take a stand against slavery. Even in 2018, there are still holdouts. Jumoke EmeryBurned placards were left on the front porch of Amendment A sponsor. on Monday,...
View ArticleVirginia governor refuses to step down over “racist and offensive” photo
RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam plans to tell the public Saturday that he will not resign because he does not believe that he appears in a racist photograph from his 1984 medical school...
View ArticleGuest commentary: Virginia’s descent from darling to dumpster fire leaves...
There’s a new move out there — the Virginia facepalm. I got it from just about every Virginian I talked to this week about the blackface scandals threatening the governor and attorney general, and the...
View ArticleBlackface, other insensitivities ran rampant in ’80s culture
At the time Virginia’s future political leaders put on blackface in college for fun, Dan Aykroyd wore it too — in the hit 1983 comedy “Trading Places.” Sports announcers of that time often described...
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Where has Denver’s soul food gone? In a historically black neighborhood, the...
Two decades ago, the storefronts of Denver’s Five Points neighborhood were still known for soul food. You could order the fried chicken from Kapre Lounge or the catfish at Pierre’s Supper Club, spicy...
View ArticleLetters: Electoral College votes continue to be a hot topic; Brawl at youth...
Electoral College votes continue to be a hot topic Re: “The Electoral College only perpetuates inequality,” June 16 commentary Trotting out the tired, inaccurate and offensive assertion that defending...
View ArticleCapehart: Dismantling the myth of America and the white men who founded it
“Black history is American history,” thundered Gov. Ralph Northam, D-Va., at a ceremony on Aug. 24 commemorating the arrival of “20 and odd Negroes” who were traded for food by pirates who landed at...
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Black Sands imagines a heroic black history, with the help of Colorado musicians
Manuel Godoy usually ignores emails soliciting his interest in a new music project. “At first I was like, ‘Oh, another person throwing a song at me,’” Godoy, 34, said over the phone from Brooklyn,...
View ArticleLimerick: The history we are blessed to repeat
Let’s say that an author has written a pronouncement that is universally quoted in support of the cause that matters the most to you. Should you respond by calling attention to the flaws in your...
View ArticleBrooks: A ridiculously optimistic history of the next decade
Looking back at the 2020s from our vantage point in 2030, the first great event was the complete destruction of Donald Trump’s Republican Party. As the former Republican consultant Mike Murphy had...
View ArticleBlow: The agitated MLK I came to love
When I was young I idolized the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the way most boys look up to athletes or pop stars. I had a poster of him. I had a T-shirt with his face on it. I recited his “I Have a...
View ArticleBetsy DeVos compares choosing an abortion to choosing to own slaves at...
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos compared the “moral evil” of owning slaves to making the choice to have an abortion at a Wednesday night Colorado Christian University president’s dinner held in...
View ArticleBouie: The equality that wasn’t enough
Shortly after acquitting President Donald Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, Senate Republicans moved to confirm two nominees for the federal judiciary. The first, 38-year-old Andrew...
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McMillin: It took a serendipitous journey to realize that I am not only an...
I am racist, and I am anti-racist. A year ago, I would not — indeed could not — have written that sentence. I would have naively insisted, “I’m not racist.” Author Ibram X. Kendi gave me the words, the...
View ArticleLetters: Don’t let fear of socialism block spread of good ideas; Confronting...
Don’t let fear of socialism block spread of good ideas Re: “This is how Scandinavia got great,” Feb. 16 commentary What an insightful look at investing in the education of their youth, while...
View ArticleSelma Online offers free civil rights lessons amid virus
RIO RANCHO, N.M. — The first attempt of the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in 1965, led to police violence against peaceful African-American demonstrators. The beatings, known as...
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Entrepreneur picks Juneteenth, “day of celebration, freedom,” to launch new...
This year, Shamika Goddard is celebrating Juneteenth as well as her grandmother’s 71st birthday by officially starting her new business. Goddard’s Tech Chaplaincy Institute melds strong forces in her...
View ArticleJuneteenth: A day of joy and pain – and now national action
In just about any other year, Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that all enslaved black people learned they had been freed from bondage, would be marked by African American families...
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