social justice
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300 gather to celebrate Wilma Webb’s receipt of ATHENA leadership Award | NONPROFIT REGISTER
COLORADO WOMEN’S CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Denver News: On Colorado Gives Day, when 94,712 Coloradans opened their pocketbooks to the tune of $54.6 million in support of local charities, 300 civic leaders were at the Grand Hyatt’s Pinnacle Club to pay tribute to Wilma J. Webb, whose rich history of giving is marked not just by…
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Henry Allen Jr., former Colorado NAACP president and civil rights advocate, has died
Henry Allen Jr., a former president of the Colorado Springs chapter of the NAACP and civil rights advocate, died Thursday after a long illness. He was 67. A 24-year veteran of the U.S. Army, Allen dedicated the latter decades of his life to public service in the Pikes Peak region. After retiring from the armed…
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Colorado church leaders join summit against white supremacy
Colorado will be well-represented at an Indianapolis summit to stand up to white supremacy, “environmental degradation” and other political issues as a matter of faith this month. The 300 delegates to the Prophetic Resistance Summit Oct. 23-25 will include faith leaders from Denver, Grand Junction, Colorado Springs, Parker, Lakewood and Boulder County, according to organizers.…
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May: The ideals of 1776
Should we return to them – and can we? Andrew Roberts, one of the world’s great historians, took America to task just over one week ago. Let me rephrase that: He took Americans to task for what they – or rather we – are doing to these United States during an election season that often seems like a…
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May: Terrorism and economic warfare
It’s a one-two punch meant to bring about a Middle East without Jews Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market bills itself as the “heartbeat of Israeli culinary art.” Dozens of small restaurants and shops offer cheese, wine, bread, fish, olives, pasta, burgers – pretty much anything you can imagine and quite a bit that you probably cannot.…