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Office of Civil Rights is targeting 45 universities for 'race-exclusionary' advanced degree programsSix universities in the Mountain West are among the schools under investigation for participating in a program aimed at helping minority students earn doctoral degrees in business.
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Colorado lawmakers are considering a bill that would regulate the use of facial recognition software ... to monitor students in the state’s schools. A handful of Colorado school districts already use the technology. And there has been debate about whether it makes schools safer – or violates students’ civil rights. We dig into the technology and the controversy, on today’s In the NoCo.
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It’s been three decades since Colorado became known as The Hate State. Colorado earned that nickname after the passage of Amendment 2 banned anti-discrimination laws designed to protect the LGBTQ community. The new season of KUNC’s podcast The Colorado Dream looks at how Colorado went from approving Amendment 2 ... to electing the country’s first openly gay governor. KUNC’s Stephanie Daniel – who hosts the Colorado Dream podcast -- will discuss the new season on today’s In the NoCo.
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Kevin Williams was a tireless advocate for the disability rights movement in the Centennial State. He died at the age of 57 earlier this month from respiratory failure.
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A Christian graphic artist who the Supreme Court said can refuse to make wedding websites for gay couples pointed during her lawsuit to a request from a man named "Stewart" and his husband-to-be. The twist? Stewart says it never happened.
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A new U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing a Colorado Christian graphic artist to refuse to work on wedding websites for same-sex couples has LGBTQ+ people across the country worried about broader consequences.
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We talk with John Herrick of the Boulder Reporting Lab about Boulder Valley School District's recent discrimination settlement.
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We talk with The Colorado Sun about the death of U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder, and the recently published list of top consumer complaints in the state.
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Across the Mountain West and beyond, right-wing politicians are pushing a wave of discriminatory laws. But that’s only one of the issues motivating a record number of LGBTQ candidates.
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An Indian-American doctor was sitting in his car outside the building he owned in Aurora. He honked at a police cruiser blocking his way. An Aurora police officer responded by drawing a gun on the doctor, questioning him as if he was a criminal suspect.