Tag: Colorado Progressive Coalition

A convicted rapist has confessed in a 1987 sex assault case for which an apparently innocent man is spending his 28th year behind bars. In...

“If he was black, he’d be dead. You better believe it,” Denver civil rights activist Virgil Robinson said about Dylann Roof — the young...

Today the colleagues, friends and family of Jason McKain, 42, gathered to celebrate his life and mourn his death. McKain, a progressive leader in...

Activists calling for the complete overhaul of the Denver Sheriff's Department are not impressed by Mayor Michael Hancock's decision not to include any community members...

“It’s reprehensible that leadership doesn’t have enough backbone to stand up and say this is wrong,” said Rev. Reginald Holmes, pastor of Denver’s New Covenant Christian Church/Alpha Omega Ministries.

'In our area, there isn’t a big enough workforce pool to draw from. H-2A is a very restricted system with a lot of red tape. It's not a great program but we have no choice.'

Not long after Landau was asked to turn over his license and registration, he found his arms held by two backup officers while Nixon struck him in the face hard enough to topple the group onto the sidewalk.

Pueblo City Council made headlines Monday when it voted 5 to 1 to indefinitely table an ordinance that would have extended benefits to the domestic partners of gay city employees. The move came as a shock to the sponsor of the proposal, to the members of the public who packed the council chambers and to state political analysts long used to seeing solidly Democratic Pueblo lead on gay rights.

A couple of dozen people gather on a busy downtown street with signs and bullhorns, and the question that bystanders and reporters alike want to ask is always the same: "What do you want to accomplish?"

Citing institutional weakness and failure, a Denver activist coalition is demanding federal authorities intervene to address police brutality in the city.