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Amid the ongoing battle for racial justice, MLK Day, celebrated on Monday, gives us a moment to see where we’re going and what we still need to do. Today on In The NoCo, we hear from former state lawmaker Wilma Webb, who fought for years to bring MLK Day to Colorado.
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The film “Killers of the Flower Moon” has elicited strong reactions, especially from the people at the center of the narrative — Osage citizens. In The NoCo discusses some of their reactions with KUNC reporter Emma VandenEinde.
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Some Coloradans are for the first time confronting a hard truth about our recent past. A new state report uncovers the abuse and death that occurred at Indian boarding schools here well into the 1960s. In The NoCo unwraps some of this reckoning and the process of healing.
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When violinist and author Brendan Slocumb visits schools, students don’t believe the music educator plays the violin. He tells In The NoCo why he doesn’t fit the mold — and how he’s working to break it — ahead of his talk in Fort Collins on Sunday.
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News brief with The Colorado Sun: Teachers ask for help overturning 'American Birthright' curriculumReporter Michael Booth from The Colorado Sun joined us to discuss current turmoil within Woodland Park School District over social studies curriculum.
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Colorado was home to roughly 10 schools that assimilated Native students during the late 1800s and early 1900s, according to a new report by History Colorado.
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Colorado’s trails, campgrounds and parks are getting more crowded. But surveys show the droves of visitors are overwhelmingly white and wealthy. A new initiative launching this summer hopes to change that.
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A new Brookings Institution analysis helps fill the data gap, finding that nearly 40% of Native Americans saw cuts in work hours or pay over the last year – higher than all other racial or ethnic groups.
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Indigenous and constitutional law experts say a lawsuit filed earlier this month challenging Colorado’s ban on Native American mascots could blunt the national movement that's rejecting such racist and harmful imagery.
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As communities reckon with deep problems in policing highlighted by the murder of George Floyd, some advocates are working toward what they say is one solution: achieving gender parity.