By Melanie Asmar The syllabus for Gerardo Muñoz’s AP World History class doesn’t call for discussing coups until Unit 9, but after watching a mob of extremists storm the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday in an effort to stop the certification of the presidential election, Muñoz decided to skip ahead. His students had just […] Read more
Joel Snyder “Just another day live teaching an attempted coup from my dining room.” That’s how I described my day, last Wednesday on social media. The moment felt heavy — disaster layered upon disaster. A crushing pandemic is ravaging our nation and our city, and we had just witnessed an insurrection strike at […] Read more
By Fran Kritz Despite two weeks of a harsh cough and feeling achy and awful while she was sick with COVID-19, as well as lingering shortness of breath weeks later, contracting the coronavirus in late October is not the worst thing that has happened to Mireya Marquez this year. Marquez, 39, a transgender woman […] Read more
By Kenny Stencil Immigrant rights defenders were encouraged by President-elect Joe Biden’s nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas for Secretary of Homeland Security and expressed hope that the first Latino and immigrant to lead the department will implement humane immigration policies to reverse the damage inflicted by President Donald Trump. Arturo Vargas, CEO of the […] Read more
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) presents Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, a traveling exhibition focused on the post-Mexican Revolution artworks of internationally celebrated artists Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and their contemporaries, including Lola Alvarez Bravo, Gunther Gerzso, María Izquierdo and Carlos Mérida. Organized by MondoMostre and […] Read more
Simon Davis-Cohen A Trump-aligned group called Citizen Voter, Inc. is spending millions of dollars to push model state constitutional reform to prevent political rights from being extended to non-citizens. The reform changes state constitutions to say only citizens can vote. The group, founded in 2018, won major victories last week in Alabama, Florida and […] Read more
David Torres These truly are not normal times. And in this abnormality, an infinite number of offenses have aggravated the most basic standards of social coexistence and human integration: from direct and public bullying of less-favored immigrants to the separation of families at a border that has become a shameful scar, and where […] Read more
By Khalil Abdullah If Willie Sutton were alive, he wouldn’t be robbing banks, more likely he’d be a scam artist, siphoning off a portion of the almost $70 million that Indiana consumers alone have reportedly lost to fraud even before the COVID-19 pandemic opened up a pandora’s box of new scam opportunities. “At […] Read more
Colorado lawmakers unveiled a bill on June 3rd, that will bring accountability and transparency to police actions across Colorado. This past week, cit ies all over the United States have responded to the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man killed by police, with massive protests and demands for justice. Protestors are calling for […] Read more
A Dark Bookend for a Desperate Demagogue
Alida García Trump’s visit to the southern border on January 12, is a dark bookend for a desperate demagogue whose campaign began with vile attacks on Mexican and immigrant families just minutes into his campaign launch 5 years ago. His presidency started with dangerous white supremacist rhetoric and quickly pivoted to policies in the first […] Read more