Back on track and breaking records
Editor’s note (updated story on Feb. 21, 2023): Maya Ries’ record-breaking season continues this week at the Rocky Mountain Athletic…
Tag: Diversity
Marketing team helps construction industry build diverse workforce
During the first quarter of 2021, Denver’s crane count increased by 22% from last October, according to the latest Crane…
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…
FirstBank keeps its eyes on goal
When FirstBank opened its doors in 1963, it had 10 employees, including its founder. Today, the Lakewood-based bank employs nearly 2,700….
How to bring the Black Lives Matter movement to your hometown
Ashley Bernales can see change – real change – happening. And she wanted to be a part of it. The women’s…
Black scholars launch dialogue series on race
More than 520 people tuned in to “How Do We Talk About What’s Going On?” a livestream panel hosted Friday by Metropolitan State University…
Principal catalyst
After working in public schools for his entire adult life, Michael Atkins knows exactly which grade is his favorite: second…
Joy Reid gets real on race
Speaking at Metropolitan State University of Denver as the 2020 Rachel B. Noel Visiting Professor wasn’t just a way for MSNBC’s Joy-Ann…
‘Until justice rolls down like waters’
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. understood that life-giving water holds potential to be placid and potent, resilient and renewing,…
Lessons from the Selma to Montgomery march
When Sheldon “Shelly” Steinhauser marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the spring of 1965 from Selma, Alabama,…