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The church recently joined a growing list of equity clinics taking place across the state. The pop-up vaccine distribution sites are designed to help quash racial disparities emerging in the rollout.
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The Equal Justice Initiative's Community Remembrance Project is working with local communities to help uncover the lost stories of lynchings – including here in Colorado. Jennifer Taylor, a senior attorney at EJI, spoke with KUNC’s Colorado Edition about their work.
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Most people know the story of Jackie Robinson, who integrated Major League Baseball in 1947 and paved the way for future athletes of color to finally achieve the status and recognition they deserved. But who paved the way for Jackie Robinson? According to Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, a chunk of that credit goes to a historic, yet largely unknown event in Denver, later dubbed "The Little World Series of the West."
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Denver-based artist Narkita Gold is sharing stories of the city's Black residents one interview and portrait at a time. Her works include themes of love, authenticity, unity and liberation.
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A Colorado law aimed at protecting workers and students from discrimination against race-based hair traits went into effect Monday.
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Organizers in Denver and Fort Collins are marching for racial justice today on the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington.
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The longtime Georgia congressman died Friday of pancreatic cancer. Lewis, who devoted his life to activism and the civil rights movement, was known as "the conscience of the Congress."
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Lewis began his nearly 60-year career in public service leading sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in the Jim Crow-era South. He went on to serve in Congress for more than three decades.
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Kimberly Grayson took her high schoolers to the African American history museum in D.C. When students pressed their white teachers to take the same trip, a revised history curriculum quickly followed.
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In his new book, Surrender, White People!, Hughley suggests we consider whether our national holidays speak to the entire nation — along with other bitingly funny ideas for addressing injustice.