benjamin stapleton
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Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood grapples with namesake’s KKK past
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Colorful and inviting banners flutter in the wind above a popular shopping and dining area in Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood where an airport once stood. “We are One Community,” reads a banner with a kite next to it. It is followed by a set of banners that read: “We Care” “We Respect” “We Welcome” And on…
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Walker Stapleton comments on an ancestor’s ties to the KKK following NY Times story
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A lot of people have ancestors who said or did things that make their descendants cringe. But there’s an extra burden if your name is Walker Stapleton, a candidate for governor and scion of a proud family with a last name written large in Denver’s history. The New York Times wrote an article Tuesday that…
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Effort to change Stapleton neighborhood group’s name fails
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A Stapleton neighborhood group is keeping its name, despite the Klan ties of its early-20th-century namesake. Last week, in a vote viewed as a litmus test of sorts for advocates of changing the entire neighborhood’s name, the community’s neighborhood group, the Stapleton United Neighbors (SUN), voted on whether to change the organization’s name to Central…
