civil rights
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Some civil rights sites at risk of being lost to history
A once-thriving all-black settlement in the New Mexico desert is a ghost town that rarely appears on maps. Tour buses pass but never stop at a Houston building where Latino activists planned civil rights events. Motels that welcomed minority motorists along 1950s Route 66 sit abandoned. From a Civil War battlefield where Hispanic Union soldiers fought to birthplaces…
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YESTERYEAR: Reactions vary widely to U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Amendment 2
Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Elected officials had a range of reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Colorado’s Amendment 2, the ballot measure passed four years earlier by state voters, that would forbid “protected status based on homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientation.” The court “rejected the equal rights…
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Rep. Salazar endorses Sanders: ‘Of course Bernie can be elected’
State Rep. Joe Salazar is feelin’ the Bern. Along with two fellow liberal lawmakers and more than a dozen activists and former elected officials from around the state, the Thornton Democrat plans to formally endorse Bernie Sanders Tuesday morning at the state Capitol, a week before the Vermont senator faces off against Hillary Clinton in…