Colorado’s legacy of women’s suffrage
One hundred years ago, suffragists were engaged in a mad dash to register women across the country to vote in…
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Infographic: MSU Denver’s outsized impact on Colorado’s economy
Will the 2020 census be accurate?
The U.S. Census Bureau’s efforts to truncate the 2020 census timeline is calling into question the accuracy of the constitutionally…
Public-health crises converge
Disparities faced by people of color in America’s health care and criminal-justice systems are deeply intertwined. The COVID-19 pandemic and…
The broken promises behind ‘Winter Counts’
Friction between federal law enforcement and Native American nations is the focus of a new novel by Denver author David…
Remembering Denver’s deadliest riots a century later
The stage was set for unrest: A pandemic was ripping through the population, unemployment was soaring and racial and economic…
‘Whose memory do we honor?’
The history of the monument in front of the statehouse honoring the 1st Colorado Cavalry was complicated. So was the expression…
Lessons from the election that delivered Colorado’s most diverse General Assembly ever
Colorado’s 2018 legislative elections delivered the most diverse legislature in the state’s history, according to a new report from Metropolitan State University of…
Time to toss the ACT and SAT?
When Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on July 8 signed a bill allowing the state’s public colleges and universities to omit standardized…
Tools of resilience
For Annie Redmond, the legacy of trauma wrought by systemic racism is historic and personal. When cellphone video showing the…