By The Admin on August 14, 2011
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 past 12 [...]
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By The Admin on February 13, 2011
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 in math [...]
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