From refugee to Colorado House representative
Naquetta Ricks was a young child when strangers stormed her house and held her family at gunpoint in their driveway….
Category: Politics
Passing on standardized tests
Read this story in Spanish. Miguel Angel Escobar Garza excelled at Denver’s Abraham Lincoln High School, graduating in 2015 with…
Omitir los exámenes estandarizados
Read this story in English. Miguel Angel Escobar Garza se destacó en la escuela preparatoria Abraham Lincoln de Denver y…
Does putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill honor her memory?
Five days after taking office, the Biden administration announced it was accelerating Obama-era plans to make Harriet Tubman the new…
An economist’s view of Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief plan
Less than a week into the job, President Joe Biden is making good on his campaign promise to take aggressive…
MSU Denver junior takes on the education gap, a barrier to top jobs
If you want to understand the equity gap in education, do the numbers. Today, nearly 75% of Colorado jobs require some sort…
What can history teach us about Jan. 6?
If there’s one word we could use a little less of in 2021, it’s “unprecedented.” In the wake of the…
Z Change
Like millions around the world, Agazi Abay watched on television as George Floyd was slowly choked to death by a Minneapolis police…
Kat Cammack was once homeless. Now, she’s the youngest Republican woman in the U.S. House.
Kat Cammack showed up a little early for her first day of work as campaign manager of Florida Republican Ted…
Best of RED 2020
Earning a diploma on COVID-19’s front lines At the onset of the pandemic, nursing students joined STRIDE Community Health Center to…