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Disability Advocates Sue Denver, Allege Systemic Discrimination & Failure to Provide Accessible Shelter & Services to Disabled, Houseless People

February 26, 2025 Like 0 Guest Contributor

Editor’s Note: Press Releases are provided to Yellow Scene. In an effort to keep our community informed, we publish some press releases in whole. DENVER, CO – Disability Law United, Newman | McNulty, LLC, and Brooklyn Law School’s Disability and…

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Black History Month

February 20, 2025 Like 0 Guest Contributor

By Regan Byrd It is Black History Month, but it certainly doesn’t feel like it. This is usually a time for self-reflection on our nation’s deep history of anti-Black racism and hostility towards one of the demographics who built the…

Poetry

Why we speak… | The Soul in the Sun

April 4, 2023 Like 0 Muriel Vieux

The reason we speak up / It never occurred to you / That sending us to a school / Named after a confederate / Might make us uncomfortable

Poetry

No one cared… | The Soul in the Sun

March 28, 2023 Like 0 Muriel Vieux

No one ever worried / That learning the horrors of our history / Might make us sad and uncomfortable / From the auctions to the lynchings / No one ever cared about that

Poetry

Unmitigated gall! | The Soul in the Sun

March 21, 2023 1 0 Muriel Vieux

We’ve have watched you / Come after us and our rights / Time and time again / Every single generation / Every time we start to shine / Every single time!

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A Celebration of “Black Love” for our Community and Culture

February 27, 2023 Like 0 Guest Contributor

The Urban League of Metropolitan Denver is hosting a gala in support of launching the new ULMD Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center.

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Faces of Summer: Black Lives Matter Edition

July 23, 2020 Like 0 editor

In the end, a destination we haven’t reached and I’m not sure we ever will, history will remember this year, and these protests, in the same ways that history remembers the Civil Rights era of the 1960s.…