Colorado
Meridian Elementary pulls boy from class for black face costume
A white Colorado second-grade student who wore black face paint as part of a Martin Luther King costume has drawn criticism from school officials. Sean King was pulled out of class Wednesday after donning the makeup for a project requiring students to dress up as a historical figure. The Colorado Springs boy said he was [...]
The Denver Foundation Announces the First African American Men’s Giving Circle in the Nation’s West
Some are mature and established; others are still in college. They are educators, businessmen, and blue collar workers; they are elected officials, musicians, and social service providers. A few are single; many are family men. While the forces of nature might have never brought together this eclectic group under any other circumstances, a love of [...]
Black lawmakers in Colorado gain a bigger voice at table
A year ago, Colorado’s African-American community braced for the unimaginable: a legislature without a single black lawmaker for the first time in nearly six decades. Denver’s first black mayor, Wellington Webb, was among those who fretted about whether African-Americans would have a voice when the legislature convened in 2011. But much has changed in the [...]
Lamm: Finding what works to help black youths succeed
Denver Post – A particularly disturbing article regarding African-American boys jumped out from the piles on my desk recently. “Only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient in reading, compared with 38 percent of white boys,” reported The New York Times. And by the eighth grade, only 12 percent of black males are proficient [...]
