Protesters in major U.S. cities decry airstrikes over Gaza
LOS ANGELES — Pro-Palestinian protesters took to the streets of Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta and other U.S. cities on Saturday to demand an end to Israeli airstrikes over the...
View ArticleSo long Stapleton, hello Central Park: Denver City Council cements...
The Denver City Council finally cast Stapleton into the dustbin of history on Monday, rebranding the northeast neighborhood area as Central Park as a means of distancing it from a former mayor who was...
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Lee Evans, record-setting sprinter and ’68 Olympic activist, dies at 74
LAGOS, Nigeria — Lee Evans, the record-setting sprinter who wore a black beret in a sign of protest at the 1968 Olympics, died Wednesday. He was 74. USA Track and Field confirmed Evans’ death. The San...
View ArticleMassive overhaul of Denver policing, criminal justice system needed for city...
To create a safer city, Denver officials need to automatically fire law enforcement officers who kill an unarmed person, establish safe injection sites and stop forcibly removing people from homeless...
View Article“Do better, Mead”: High school students protest after viral photo shows...
Dozens of students at Mead High School protested outside school grounds Friday morning after a picture was posted on social media showing three students – one of them in blackface – reenacting the...
View ArticleGlendale gives green light to 10-acre entertainment district after years of...
After more than 20 years of planning, a revolving door of developers, lawsuits and protests, Glendale is set to break ground this fall on a $150 million entertainment-focused project on the banks of...
View ArticleDenver revokes Pinkerton’s license to operate as a security company in...
Denver officials have revoked Pinkerton’s license to operate as a security guard provider in the city in connection with the fatal shooting at a political rally last year by an unlicensed guard who had...
View ArticleTeen who recorded George Floyd’s arrest, death wins Pulitzer nod
MINNEAPOLIS — The teenager who pulled out her cellphone and recorded the police restraint and death of George Floyd, helping to launch a global movement to protest racial injustice, was on Friday...
View ArticleTerrance Carroll: Why, as a Black man, do I wear a uniform? I find the answer...
Like most Black kids growing up in Washington, D.C., I had a complicated relationship with the police. On one hand, each time a patrol car drove down our street there was an immediate surge of fear and...
View ArticleEditorial: The All-Star Game marks Denver’s official comeback
Pessimists declared downtown Denver dead in 2020. The eulogy came with good evidence – empty streets, closed restaurants and bars, vandalized buildings covered with graffiti and plywood, and tents and...
View ArticlePolice patrol Havana in large numbers after rare protests
HAVANA — Large contingents of Cuban police patrolled the capital of Havana on Monday following rare protests around the island nation against food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis....
View ArticleBrauchler: Two years since Elijah McClain’s death and still no movement on...
The time is up for Attorney General Phil Weiser to reveal what will become of the prosecution of those involved in the death of innocent Elijah McClain almost two years ago. In the more than 426 days...
View Article“I am angry today:” Jeffco’s top health official halts mobile COVID-19...
The head of Jefferson County Public Health pulled the agency’s three COVID-19 vaccination vans off the road over Labor Day weekend after nurses and medical staff administering shots to the public were...
View ArticleEx-cops accused of violating George Floyd’s rights face arraignment
MINNEAPOLIS — Four former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights are scheduled to be arraigned in federal court Tuesday at a hearing that could also address some...
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With “Sojourners Project,” a new theatrical journey begins in Colorado
Alicia Young had a dream. (Actually, she had a few.) The actor-activist-director-theater maven was sitting at a cafe in Denver’s Whittier neighborhood recently talking about the inspiration for...
View ArticleJudge questions whether Jan. 6 rioters are treated unfairly
WASHINGTON — Rejecting the recommendation of prosecutors, a federal judge sentenced a Jan. 6 rioter to probation on Friday and suggested that the Justice Department was being too hard on those who...
View ArticleDecades later, a new look at Black Panthers and their legacy
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — It once would have been unthinkable for a city to erect a monument to Huey P. Newton. The Black Panther Party co-founder was feared and hated by many Americans, and party members...
View ArticleFrustrations grow as marchers demand faster climate action
GLASGOW, Scotland — Tens of thousands of climate activists marched Saturday through the Scottish city hosting the U.N. climate summit, physically close to the global negotiators inside but separated by...
View ArticleElection results in Aurora a “gut punch” to recently ascendant progressives...
After two election cycles that moved the Aurora City Council increasingly to the left, voters last week decidedly turned the political dial back in the opposite direction in Colorado’s third-largest...
View ArticleEXPLAINER: Did Rittenhouse lawyers do enough to prevail?
KENOSHA, Wisconsin — When Kyle Rittenhouse took the stand to testify about his actions the night he shot three men on the streets of Kenosha — sobbing and seemingly unable to continue as he approached...
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