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Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Reader: Student who wore blackface for MLK speech has mom to thank for trouble

    We hooked yesterday's collection of the five most memorable kid in trouble stories to the tale of Sean King, who got called to the principal's office after wearing blackface for a Martin Luther King Jr. project. One reader thought someone else deserved to be there, too.

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2012

    Beyond Occupy: An MLK Dialogue for 2012 set for 3 p.m. today at Redline Denver

    ​Today as the country honors Dr. Martin Luther King, a consortium of local hip-hop artists and community activists is getting together this afternoon at 3 p.m. at RedLine Denver (2350 Arapahoe Street) for Beyond Occupy: An MLK Dialogue for 2012, to engage in dialogue about the bigger picture o ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 12, 2012

    Black to the Future

    ​Today as the country honors Dr. Martin Luther King, a consortium of local hip-hop artists and community activists is getting together this afternoon at 3 p.m. at RedLine Denver (2350 Arapahoe Street) for Beyond Occupy: An MLK Dialogue for 2012, to engage in dialogue about the bigger picture o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    Brett Reese, Greeley school board member, censured for teacher touching, not MLK hating

    Brett Reese.​Earlier this year, Greeley-Evans school board member Brett Reese received Shmuck of the Week honors for being a gun-totin' hater of Martin Luther King, Jr. But that's only the tip of his shmuckiness according to his fellow board members, who've censured him after accusations aros ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    Who is the Antichrist? Jesus-blowjob-smasher-lady may have the answer

    ​Not that it comes as much of a surprise when it comes to the woman so possessed with Christ-loving zeal that she walked into a Loveland art museum and smashed a work of art with a crowbar, but Kathleen Folden is crazy -- and in the way typical of evangelical fanatics, she's crazy in an "obses ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2011

    Carmelo Anthony trade: Melo edits Martin Luther King on Twitter, bitches about booing

    Carmelo.​As the Melo drama over a potential Carmelo Anthony trade to the New Jersey Nets intensifies, the man himself appears to be on a spin-control PR blitz. Hot on the heels of Anthony's guarded ESPN interview comes a Sports Illustrated story in which he complains about fans' anger. And yes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2011

    Photos: Martin Luther King Day Marade at Denver's City Park, January 17, 2011

    ​On a comfortably brisk morning in City Park, thousands of people gathered to march in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We asked a few marchers of how to keep King's spirit and message alive in 2011, 43 years after his death.

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Brett Reese and Laura Boggs, school board members, just can't control their crazy lately

    Brett Reese​Last year, Westword profiled Andrea Merida, a Denver Public Schools board member who caused a stir in 2009 when she had herself secretly sworn in. Last year, a few voters tried to recall her after she wrote a negative op-ed about a senate candidate without revealing that she was wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Martin Luther King Jr. a sexual degenerate and Communist, says Greeley school board member

    Martin Luther King Jr.​Check out these three Colorado-centric blog posts. 5280's Michael de Yoanna shares his take on Greeley school board member Brett Reese's radio attacks on Martin Luther King Jr. Will he take down Mother Teresa next? Colorado Pols: The mercurial Tom Strickland is leaving ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Pernell Hines, no. 92: Suspect turns himself in after shooting man in argument

    ​The homicide that took place yesterday afternoon two blocks east of Monaco on 39th Avenue, near Martin Luther King Park, is turning into a pretty open-and-shut case. Police responding to a call about two men in a loud argument arrived at the scene only to find one of the men shot -- he was p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    Flobots Jonny 5 updates "By the Time I Get to Arizona"

    ​ In case you just joined us, Flobots are notorious when it comes to fighting injustice and standing up for the rights of all human beings. So it comes as no surprise, really, to discover that the act's outspoken frontman Jonny 5 has taken it upon himself to update Public Enemy's incendiary a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Wake-Up Call: MLK Day's march of history

    ​The country's largest parade in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. will kick off this morning in Denver, Colorado, a mid-sized city with a small black population, but a big record of fighting for equality. Wilma Webb, then a state legislator, was instrumental in pushing to make MLK Day a holid ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 14, 2010

    Horsing Around

    ​The country's largest parade in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. will kick off this morning in Denver, Colorado, a mid-sized city with a small black population, but a big record of fighting for equality. Wilma Webb, then a state legislator, was instrumental in pushing to make MLK Day a holid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    Denver Public Schools lunch menu: Fried chicken, collard greens for MLK Day

    ​Colorado was the first state to make Martin Luther King's birthday a holiday, and the annual Marade, the march/parade in his honor, is the largest in the country. So how does Denver Public Schools mark this august occasion? By offering a lunch menu on January 15 -- the same day the city host ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    MLK Day menu at Denver Public Schools proof school lunches are offensive

    Cultural imperialists!​No one doubts that lunch room food is offensive. And while I have nothing but respect for lunch ladies -- they prepare, cook and serve thousands of meals a day to kids who take tater tots for granted (damn cholesterol!) -- the fare itself is, well, just like when you we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Mile High Murder Nos. 68 and 69: Double homicide at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Adams Street

    View Larger Map Predictably, those good news stories about the murder rate in Denver being down in 2009 have been followed by bloodshed aplenty. Example: two homicides took place late last night near the intersection of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Adams Street, an area captured in the graphic a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2009

    Josh McDaniels F-bombs and the history of motivational rhetoric

    ​We'll leave it to the shrinks and pundits to try to figure out which Broncos team is going to show up in Kansas City next week. Will it be the upstarts who shocked just about everybody for six games? The head cases who fell flat against the Redskins and were absolutely impotent against the Ch ... 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

    February 17, 2009

    The Jukebox Effect

    Photo: Claudia LopezI deejayed a Valentine's Day party at the Horseshoe Lounge on Saturday. The bar had a great vibe, as always, and the ample crowd was in the mood for a good party. It was the first time I ever had to play music for four and a half straight hours, and I was initially worried that I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    The Rocky Mountain News throws one heck of a migil

    Cute kids make good migil photos.The mood at last night's Rocky Mountain News candlelight migil (half march, half vigil --- so coined, in the tradition of the Martin Luther King Day Marade, by someone cleverer than me) was light. Although the details of the event hinted at the possibility of theatri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2009

    Yes we can: March for MLK and donate to end hunger

    We have a dream -- that no one in Colorado will go hungry today. For the first time, the Martin Luther King Jr. Colorado Holiday Commission has partnered with Food Bank of the Rockies, by hosting a soup/chili food and fund drive at the beginning and conclusion of today's Marade in honor of MLK. Colo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2009

    Night and Day: Obama Inauguration parties in Denver

    This morning's Martin Luther King Day march took to the streets with an historic edge: Denver celebrated one African American who helped make it possible for another to become president all these years later. The elated nation that elected Obama Commander-in-Chief will be bumping the clouds tomor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2009

    Icing on the Marade

    What's a parade - or marade, for that matter - without free stuff? There was plenty of it today in Civic Center Park, the endpoint of the city's official Martin Luther King Day Marade. (For those of you who are wondering, in the grand tradition of the cockapoo -- half cocker spaniel, half poodle -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2009

    Ranking the 2009 Holidays: the Childless Dirtbag Edition

    As federal holidays go, there are few more worthy than next week's Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But unless black people celebrate the good doctor's achievements with some raucous party I'm not invited to -- entirely possible, since I'm whiter than a Cheers cast reunion -- it's not exactly the most ro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2008

    The Real Reason Why the Democratic National Convention Won't Be Shortened

    As federal holidays go, there are few more worthy than next week's Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But unless black people celebrate the good doctor's achievements with some raucous party I'm not invited to -- entirely possible, since I'm whiter than a Cheers cast reunion -- it's not exactly the most ro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2008

    The Real Reason Why the Democratic National Convention Won't Be Shortened

    As federal holidays go, there are few more worthy than next week's Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But unless black people celebrate the good doctor's achievements with some raucous party I'm not invited to -- entirely possible, since I'm whiter than a Cheers cast reunion -- it's not exactly the most ro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2008

    The Convention: Fit to Be Fried

    As federal holidays go, there are few more worthy than next week's Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But unless black people celebrate the good doctor's achievements with some raucous party I'm not invited to -- entirely possible, since I'm whiter than a Cheers cast reunion -- it's not exactly the most ro ... More >>

  • News

    February 7, 2008

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters from the week of 2/7/2008

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2008

    Mixed Messages for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

    Letters from the week of 2/7/2008

  • Calendar

    January 17, 2008

    We Shall Overcome

    Letters from the week of 2/7/2008

  • Music

    November 9, 2006

    Hell to the Chief

    Joan Baez

  • Music

    June 1, 2006

    DJ Z-Trip

    Thursday, June 1, Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom, 1-866-455-2263.

  • Calendar

    June 2, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Thursday, June 1, Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom, 1-866-455-2263.

  • People & Places

    March 24, 2005

    Best New Building in the 'Burbs

    Martin Luther King Jr. Library

  • News

    January 23, 2003

    Off Limits

    High in the sky

  • News

    October 17, 2002

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of October 17, 2002

  • People & Places

    April 4, 2002

    Best Parade

    Martin Luther King Jr. "Marade"

  • News

    November 15, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of November 15, 2001

  • News

    November 8, 2001

    Cheese Wiz

    Are you a man or a mouse? Read all about it.

  • News

    September 27, 2001

    Swivel Action

    When the Bush administration does something worth protesting, La Mitzvah will be ready.

  • News

    April 6, 2000

    Class Wars

    Northeast Denver's schools are running out of room.

  • Calendar

    January 7, 1999

    Night & Day

    January 7 - 13, 1999

  • Calendar

    January 15, 1998

    Thrills for the week

    January 7 - 13, 1999

  • Culture

    December 25, 1997

    Amen to That

    January 7 - 13, 1999

  • Culture

    November 6, 1997

    Color Commentary

    January 7 - 13, 1999

  • Music

    February 20, 1997

    Feedback

    January 7 - 13, 1999

  • Calendar

    January 16, 1997

    Thrills for the week

    January 7 - 13, 1999

  • News

    January 17, 1996

    OFF LIMITS

    January 7 - 13, 1999

  • Calendar

    January 10, 1996

    THRILLS

    January 7 - 13, 1999

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