Early last week, Wayne Laugesen, editorial page editor for the trio of Anschutz-owned Colorado media properties (the Gazette in Colorado Springs, Denver Gazette and Colorado Politics), sent a one-line email to his staff.
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Does Ganahl Share Prager’s View That It’s ‘Idiotic’ That ‘You Can’t Say The N-Word’?
Heidi Ganahl’s campaign for governor is facing controversy as she deals with a potential COVID-19 outbreak at a recent campaign event featuring right-wing media personality Dennis Prager, who tested positive for the virus this week after saying he’d been trying to catch it in order to gain immunity in lieu of getting vaccinated.
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Don’t Be Afraid: Critical Race Theory Won’t Bite (But It May Make You Think)
I have been teaching graduate seminars in critical race theory for over a decade. So I find the recent wave of hand wringing about critical race theory infecting K-12 education and infiltrating the federal government to be puzzling, troubling, and heartbreaking.
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The Weathering of Black America
After Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, his autopsy report revealed that at the young age of 39, he had “the heart of a 60-year old.”
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Can Corporations Walk the Walk on Racial Justice?
For months now, uprisings against structural racism have spurred discussions about how to bridge the nation’s racial divides — including the enormous racial wealth gap.
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State Senator who falsely accused a Boy Scout of misquoting her now claims media “panders to its liberal base”
Colorado State Sen. Vicki Marble (R-Fort Collins), who falsely claimed last month that she was misquoted by a Boy Scout, stepped up her complaints about the “liberal media” in a Facebook post last month.
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State Sen. Vicki Marble still can’t stop talking about “Soul Food”
News of Colorado state Sen. Vicki Marble’s interaction with an 11-year-old cub scout who questioned her about gun violence made national headlines after he was kicked out of his den last week.
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State Sen. likes that police chanted “whose streets, our streets” while arresting protesters
Colorado State Sen. Vicki Marble, a Republican from Fort Collins, was apparently pleased that St. Louis police chanted “whose streets, our streets” while arresting people protesting the acquittal of a former officer who murdered a black man.
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Colorado lawmaker Tim Neville compares those destroying Confederate monuments to ISIS
Colorado State Sen. Tim Neville (R-Littleton) compared those who responded to the violent white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville, Va., by tearing down Confederate monuments to ISIS.
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Colorado Republicans falsely characterized this news story to argue against political correctness
This story flew around the Fever Swamps™ like a bad illness when it was first reported. It went along the lines of: Overly politically correct ESPN banned an announcer from a game simply because he shared a name with infamous traitor General Robert E. Lee. State Rep. Lori Saine (R-Firestone) bought it.