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Can Colorado create a multicultural curriculum without twisting arms?

High schooler Tlatoani Garcia used to get kicked out of class for questioning his teacher about who discovered America. He worried he'd become just...

Wiretap: Did this brutal Texas cop not see the camera?

Candid camera? The movement for cop-camsĀ is growing around the country. In McKinney, Tex., where the cop was caught on video strong-arming a 14-year-old African-American girl...

Colorado Day

Yesterday, August 1, was Colorado Day, the anniversary of the day that Colorado became a state in 1876.  Writing yesterday writing yesterday for the...