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…
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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…
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…
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…
How to plant a pandemic garden
As the country locked down in March to flatten the COVID-19 curve and the economy shed jobs, the U.S. was…
Will ‘historical amnesia’ doom COVID-19 response?
It had the makings of a modern-day scandal: Lacking funds to support the surge in patients during a pandemic, a…
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…
The fight continues for inclusion in the classroom
It’s been 50 years since more than 100 students and civil-rights activists walked out of Denver’s West High School to protest the…
PHOTOS: Auraria then and now
If a picture is worth a thousand words, two pictures of the same place taken decades apart can fill volumes…