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Emmett Till

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    April 13, 2012

    Cornel West steals the show at Auraria social-justice conference

    After three days of panels on everything from feminism and film making to bicycles, banks and Burger King, the Art of Social Justice conference on the Auraria campus came to a close last night with a breathtaking speech by human rights activist, Dr. Cornel West. The Turnhalle Ballroom in the Tivoli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Video: Slam Nuba's Dominique Ashaheed wins 2012 Women of the World Poetry Slam

    If there's any winner in the Women of the World Poetry Slam, it's Denver, first figuratively and now literally. The international championship, in its fifth year and Denver's first as the host city, kicked off Thursday and held its second preliminary round on Friday before ending with two X chromos ... More >>

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    January 16, 2012

    Latest Word is off for Martin Luther King Day...but the news marches on

    Latest Word is off to mark Martin Luther King Day, but will be back on duty early tomorrow morning. The Martin Luther King Marade (that's march/parade) gets under way this morning at 9 a.m. The Colorado Progressive Coalition will be holding its own rally before the marade, asking for police accounta ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 20, 2011

    American Night tells an immigrant story through a mix of parody and pathos

    Latest Word is off to mark Martin Luther King Day, but will be back on duty early tomorrow morning. The Martin Luther King Marade (that's march/parade) gets under way this morning at 9 a.m. The Colorado Progressive Coalition will be holding its own rally before the marade, asking for police accounta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2010

    Free Movie Time: The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till

    ​It was one of the most egregious and highly publicized miscarriages of justice in American history: the murder of Emmett Louis Till, a 16-year-old black boy who was brutally murdered for the supposed crime of flirting with a while woman in rural Mississippi in 1955. Though the obviously guilt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Emmett Till, RIP

    The original casket of Emmett Till was among the missing items uncovered in the Alsip, Illinois, cemetery scandal. After the body of the fourteen-year-old civil rights martyr was exhumed in 2005 for an investigation into Till's lynching back in 1955, when the Chicago boy dared to talk to a white wom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2008

    Street Art and Nolan Lee's Baptism by Fire

    The original casket of Emmett Till was among the missing items uncovered in the Alsip, Illinois, cemetery scandal. After the body of the fourteen-year-old civil rights martyr was exhumed in 2005 for an investigation into Till's lynching back in 1955, when the Chicago boy dared to talk to a white wom ... More >>

  • News

    February 17, 2005

    What's So Funny

    The original casket of Emmett Till was among the missing items uncovered in the Alsip, Illinois, cemetery scandal. After the body of the fourteen-year-old civil rights martyr was exhumed in 2005 for an investigation into Till's lynching back in 1955, when the Chicago boy dared to talk to a white wom ... More >>

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    April 17, 2003

    Pan African Images

    The Pan African Film Festival shatters stereotypes about black culture.

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    January 23, 2003

    Off Limits

    High in the sky

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    January 31, 2002

    Off Limits

    Turf rebirth

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