by Esteban Fernandez | Aug 28, 2020 | News
//Gov. Jared Polis signed the executive order on Aug. 27. Photo from Facebook Live stream. Gov. Jared Polis signed an executive order on Aug. 27 aimed at pruning the state government of systemic racism. The order directs state agencies to create inclusive work...
by Madison Lauterbach | Aug 25, 2020 | News
//Protesters stand with their fists raised during a moment of silence at the Protect Black Men event at Manual High School on Aug. 24. Photo by Esteban Fernandez |Este.Fdez20B@gmail.com One year ago, Elijah McClain was approached by Aurora police officers in an...
by Esteban Fernandez | Aug 25, 2020 | News
//Photo by Gage Skidmore. In many ways, Donald J. Trump’s victory in 2016 can be seen as a backlash to eight years under a Black president. However, politics doesn’t exist without its own analog to Newton’s third law, every reaction brings an equal and opposite...
by Cassandra Ballard | Aug 22, 2020 | Equity, Features
//Tiley English riffles through her housing paperwork in the hotel she was put up in by the city after the sweep of her encampment. She has been waiting for months for a room. Photo by Madison Lauterbach | mlauterbach@msmayhem.com Editor’s note: Cassandra...
by Cassandra Ballard | Aug 22, 2020 | News
//The proposed homeless campsite at the Denver Coliseum would seek to eliminate encampments in residential areas, such as the one near Morey Middle School (pictured above). Photo by Esteban Fernandez | Este.Fdez20B@gmail.com Editor’s note: Cassandra Ballard...
by Madison Lauterbach | Aug 19, 2020 | Badass Women, Features, Local Business
//Priscilla Jerez holds one of the orange cards from the Protect Your Space Project behind the bar at Tooey’s Off Colfax on Aug. 16. Jerez launched the program on July 4. Photos by Madison Lauterbach | mlauterbach@msmayhem.com Priscilla Jerez, the manager and...
by Esteban Fernandez | Aug 18, 2020 | News
Protesters descend from the Colorado State Capitol to protest police brutality and systemic oppression on May. 28, 2020. Photo by Esteban Fernandez | Este.Fdez20B@gmail.com Fiery broadsides by Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca backed by a room full of supporters was not...
by Padideh Aghanoury | Aug 15, 2020 | Editorials, Reviews
//Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion in the video for the new single “WAP.” Photo from YouTube. Cardi B is pissing off white people again. On August 7, the rapper dropped a new song and video featuring fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion titled, “WAP,” which...
by Amelia Petrini | Aug 15, 2020 | Equity, Features
//Councilwoman Jaime Torres is a co-founder of the weekly series on colorism and racism as it pertains to the Latinx community called RacismoZero. Photos by Esteban Fernandez | Este.Fdez20B@gmail.com \Concejala Jaime Torres es cofundadora de la serie semanal sobre...
by Amelia Petrini | Aug 13, 2020 | Arts/Entertainment, Features
//Alicia deOlivera Cardenas paints her mural for the ARISE Music Festival in Boulder, Colo. in 2017. Photo provided by deOlivera Cardenas. Babe Walls, a mural exhibition, is an answer to the need for space exclusive to womxn and non-binary artists in Colorado. The...
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