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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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WATCH: Foundation says Denver YMCA getting cold feet over using Stapleton name
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Jenna Stapleton, executive director of the Harmes C. Fishback Foundation Trust.KUSA-9News, Denver With a $1 million donation pledge, the Downtown Denver YMCA was set to be renamed the “Benjamin F. Stapleton Jr. Downtown Denver YMCA.” No, not the Benjamin F. Stapleton who was the longtime mayor of Denver starting in 1923 — the one who…
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Q&A with Penfield Tate | A tale of two Tates and their impact on our state
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Long before Penfield W. Tate III made a name for himself in Colorado politics, Penfield Tate II was a force to be reckoned with. The elder Tate was Boulder’s first and, to date, only African-American mayor, serving in that post 1974-76 after a stint on the council. Decades ahead of his time, the standout college…
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FEEDBACK | Stapleton unfairly targeted; vehicle registration is no bargain
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Blamed for the sins of our fathers? Really? (Re: Recent news coverage about gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton’s great-grandfather, Ben Stapleton, who as Denver mayor in the 1920s had been a member of the KKK.) Isn’t it a legal precedent dating back millennia that children cannot be punished for the misdeeds of their parents? Is the…
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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…
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New Spike Lee movie ‘BlacKkKlansman’ is based on Colorado case
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“BlacKkKlansman,” Spike Lee’s forthcoming movie about white supremacy that the director premiered Monday at the Cannes Film Festival, stems from a late-1970s investigation by a black detective with the Colorado Springs Police Department. Lee’s latest film was greeted with a standing ovation at the festival. It’s set for commercial release in August – on the…
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SLOAN | Colorado GOP’s venerable Lincoln Club has been a mainstay for reasoned conservatism
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The Lincoln Club of Colorado, one of the oldest Republican institutions in the state besides the party itself, turns 100 this year, a milestone recently marked by a gala dinner-and-dance event. The organization sports a remarkable history, beginning with its provenance as a political counterweight to the prevailing ascendancy of the Ku Klux Klan in…
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Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood reckons with its namesake’s KKK ties
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What’s in a name? While some people might hear Stapleton and think of the old Denver airport or the burgeoning Denver neighborhood, others cringe at its origins. Named after the five-term Denver Mayor Benjamin Stapleton starting in the 1920s – and member of the Ku Klux Klan who helped position Klan members throughout city government…
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Republican Mike Coffman: The ‘absolute last thing Washington needs’ is ‘morally bankrupt’ Roy Moore
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As Alabama voters prepared to head to the polls Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, a Colorado Republican, denounced Roy Moore, the state’s Republican U.S. Senate nominee, as “morally bankrupt” and called a Moore win “the absolute last thing Washington needs.” The 70-year-old Moore, who was twice removed from the Alabama Supreme Court for defying federal law,…
