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“Beyond Reform”: What Michael Hancock has – and hasn’t – fixed...

Late last August, Mayor Michael Hancock and his top safety officials held a news conference to celebrate what they called “a major milestone” in...

VIDEO: Black clergy demands Denver’s DA drop charges in innocence case

  Members of Denver's black clergy expressed their shame today at ever having supported District Attorney Mitch Morrissey. Denver's Ministerial Alliance pastors decried Morrissey's refusal to prosecute...

The Bookers are back. Family pushes for reform in the city...

Every July 9, a group gathers outside the Denver jail to remember a moment in city history the Hancock administration would rather forget. That was...

State Board of Ed member: ‘U.S. ended slavery voluntarily’

Colorado education official wonders why the AP U.S. History curriculum misses what seems to her an obvious point -- that the United States voluntarily ended slavery.

Black pastors denounce Denver Sheriff’s Department for ‘Jim Crow-like behavior’

Outraged by misconduct in the Denver Sheriff’s Department, a coalition of African-American pastors is demanding that Mayor Michael Hancock’s administration implement reform.
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