Tag: Hispanic
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Fort Collins exhibit commemorates history of local Hispanic baseball
By Shen Wu Tan (Special to The Denver Gazette) FORT COLLINS – “Take me out to the ball game. Take me out to the crowds.” The 1908 song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer, the iconic song of North American baseball sung at every game, lives on more than a century later, immortalized in…
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Colorado court finds no racial discrimination in Jeffco prosecutors’ jury selection
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A Jefferson County judge correctly found no racial discrimination was behind prosecutors’ dismissal of two apparently Hispanic jurors, the state’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday, even though some of the prosecution’s reasons did not match with reality and the judge seemed largely concerned about the “long day” when justifying the women’s removal. Under longstanding U.S.…
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Colorado 10th Circuit reinstates race discrimination lawsuit over ‘crazy brown man’ comment
Whether a Hispanic insurance agent in Greeley had his contract terminated because he was perceived as a “crazy brown man running around with a gun” will now be a question for a jury to decide, as the federal appeals court based in Denver has reinstated the racial discrimination lawsuit. A trial judge last year sided…
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INSIGHTS | BLM lost diversity coming to Colorado, others shouldn’t follow
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Diversity was never Grand Junction’s long suit. We knew that two years ago, but nobody wanted to say anything when the Trump administration moved the headquarters for the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado. That was a daisy. The agency controls more than 245 million…