City of Aurora invites community to Juneteenth midweek celebration
The City of Aurora is celebrating Juneteenth with a midweek celebration at the Aurora Municipal Center Great Lawn from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, June 12.
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The City of Aurora is celebrating Juneteenth with a midweek celebration at the Aurora Municipal Center Great Lawn from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, June 12.
A celebration more than a decade in the making filled the Denver Highlands with music and excitement. Dozens of families celebrated YMOP as the nonprofit recently held its inaugural Night of Purpose gala.
Fresh off his flight back from Texas, Ed Dwight walked with CBS Colorado across the terminal at Denver International Airport and reminisced about the opportunity he got over the weekend.
They started Wanderland Outdoors. A luxury Colorado outfitter that offers guided mindful hiking, guided fly-fishing trips, trail rides and more.
The nonprofit "CHIC" stands for Collaborative Healing Initiative within Communities which helps provide opportunities and safe spaces for marginalized communities to thrive.
The event, hosted by the Black and African American Cultural Center on campus, allowed students of all backgrounds to see how their peers express themselves through both fashion and small businesses.
As CBS News Colorado continues to Elevate Black Voices, we wanted to highlight a Black choir right here in our community. Tarell Martin & C2 Mass Choir is comprised of singers from a number of churches across Colorado.
Workers covered up parts of the damaged area of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" monument in Denver's City Park as the artist who created it came by to lament what had happened.
Communities across the region are finding innovative ways to address racial equity, to ensure all Coloradans thrive.
For seven years, members of a predominantly White church congregation in Douglas County have been meeting every month to learn about race and racism.
The owners of "Flow n Frequency" provided a yoga demonstration Sunday morning with CBS Colorado weekend morning anchor Kennedy Cook.
CBS News Colorado weekend morning anchor Kennedy Cook speaks with the owners of "Flow n Frequency," who discuss the benefits of yoga in the Black community.
CBS News Colorado continues to Elevate Black Voices as weekend morning anchor Kennedy Cook speaks with an employee of Athletics and Beyond, a program designed to mentor minority students.
On this Valentine's Day, local flower shops are blooming with business including the shop, Black and Blossomed. It's a Black-owned business in Denver that has spent the past week getting ready for today. That included preparing more than 100 flower orders and making nearly a dozen deliveries of flowers.
When Yemi Mobolade ran for mayor of Colorado Springs, not many gave him a chance.
Popular public speaking class instills confidence in people communicating in a new language.
On any given weekday, inside an Aurora classroom, you can find students producing their own masterpieces: from singing a cappella duets to scratching over beats, even creating music podcasts talking about their current favorite artists.
It's been one year since a Douglas County mother says her children began experiencing racial bullying at their school. She says the district still hasn't made any changes. She planned a daily sit-in, which she says has been met with aggression.
A group of Denver Public Schools alumni was disappointed that -- time and again -- when they asked DPS grads how many people from their community had gone on to success. Few, if any, hands would go up.
Jazz is rooted in the rhythm of the Mile High City – and the sound leads back to a historic Denver neighborhood.
What Sidney Frelow wanted most was to continue to work in the fire service.
Descendants of the first African American to be born in Colorado gathered over the weekend for a special ceremony.
Serving the community meant clearing racial hurdles. And sometimes entailed paying the highest price in the line of duty.
Dawn Owens Robinson has worked as an OB-GYN for over 23 years. In that time, she's seen Black women plagued by an ongoing problem that she's working to raise awareness about this Black History Month.
The owners of a new Ethiopian coffee shop in Aurora are looking to help their community through conversation. Lucy Coffee House opened its doors in January during an influx of African migrants in the city.
A new wildfire in Colorado's high country has led to closures of stretches of two different highways. It's located in central Grand County, and it's being called the Windy Gap Fire.
At nearly midnight on Monday evening, cheers broke out in Denver's City Council meeting. A bill amendment was passed that repeals the city's parking minimums for housing and development projects, making Denver the second city behind Longmont to do so.
Police in Wheat Ridge are getting a technology upgrade. As of Aug. 1, the department has begun using artificial intelligence to help officers write their reports.
This year, Girls in the Game will take place on Saturday, August 16th from 9am - 1pm at the University of Denver's Hamilton Gymnasium.
Female leadership in school sports has been on the decline in recent years, according to Beth Hulac, a Denver Public Schools Athletics Operations Manager. She is determined to reverse that trend through new events.
A new wildfire in Colorado's high country has led to closures of stretches of two different highways. It's located in central Grand County, and it's being called the Windy Gap Fire.
At nearly midnight on Monday evening, cheers broke out in Denver's City Council meeting. A bill amendment was passed that repeals the city's parking minimums for housing and development projects, making Denver the second city behind Longmont to do so.
Police in Wheat Ridge are getting a technology upgrade. As of Aug. 1, the department has begun using artificial intelligence to help officers write their reports.
Female leadership in school sports has been on the decline in recent years, according to Beth Hulac, a Denver Public Schools Athletics Operations Manager. She is determined to reverse that trend through new events.
Aurora Public Schools' ConstrucTECH program introduces students to the construction trades while offering the opportunity to earn college credit toward a degree in construction management.
A new wildfire in Colorado's high country has led to closures of stretches of two different highways. It's located in central Grand County, and it's being called the Windy Gap Fire.
The YMCA of Metro Denver offers every level of swim lessons for babies to older adults.
Aurora Public Schools' ConstrucTECH program introduces students to the construction trades while offering the opportunity to earn college credit toward a degree in construction management.
Record-breaking heat arrives Thursday as wildfire smoke blankets the Front Range. Fire danger remains extreme in western Colorado with active fires fueling poor air quality. Here's the latest.
Terry Pendleton has never served in law enforcement, but he equipped his Ford Explorer with red and blue lights, a siren, and a PA system to get people to move over when he was driving, according to Lone Tree police.
Female leadership in school sports has been on the decline in recent years, according to Beth Hulac, a Denver Public Schools Athletics Operations Manager. She is determined to reverse that trend through new events.
Jen Pawol is set to become the first woman to umpire in Major League Baseball when she works games this weekend between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves.
Video showed the bear charging toward the mascot, splashing water, as a person on the crew could be heard saying "Oh my God" off camera.
A sex toy landed near Indiana's Sophie Cunningham after it was thrown from the stands in L.A. while the Fever played the Sparks in the latest of several such incidents.
Dr. Jennell Kopp jokes that she's the "team mom" at the University of Denver. She brings an energy to the Denver Pioneers training room that makes her more than just your average team doctor.
Jen Pawol is set to become the first woman to umpire in Major League Baseball when she works games this weekend between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves.
An Army sergeant opened fire at Fort Stewart in Georgia, shooting five soldiers and prompting a brief lockdown at one the country's largest Army bases, officials said.
The new investment would increase Apple's commitment to U.S. manufacturing to $600 billion over the next four years, according to a White House official.
CEO Bob Iger said Disney will combine the two streaming services to create a "unified app experience."
The jewelry retailer geared toward adolescents has filed for bankruptcy for a second time since 2018.
Gov. Jared Polis announced Wednesday morning that he's calling a special session for the Colorado State Legislature.
The Solar for All program provides funding to grant recipients that planned to create or expand solar programs for low-income communities.
The new investment would increase Apple's commitment to U.S. manufacturing to $600 billion over the next four years, according to a White House official.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the federal government is calling off around $500 million worth of vaccine development projects that use mRNA technology.
"Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Ghislaine Maxwell is not," Maxwell's attorney David Markus wrote in the court filing.
Screen time doesn't just affect mental health. It may also take a toll on physical health, according to new research focused on heart health in children and teens.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the federal government is calling off around $500 million worth of vaccine development projects that use mRNA technology.
Dr. Jennell Kopp jokes that she's the "team mom" at the University of Denver. She brings an energy to the Denver Pioneers training room that makes her more than just your average team doctor.
The Denver Department of Public Health and Environment announced Monday that the city's first human case of West Nile virus this season has been confirmed. Officials in Jefferson County have also confirmed their first human cases of the virus, with three people infected.
As more people aged 45-49 are getting screened for colon cancer, more early stage diagnoses are being made, according to new research from the American Cancer Society.
At nearly midnight on Monday evening, cheers broke out in Denver's City Council meeting. A bill amendment was passed that repeals the city's parking minimums for housing and development projects, making Denver the second city behind Longmont to do so.
The new investment would increase Apple's commitment to U.S. manufacturing to $600 billion over the next four years, according to a White House official.
CEO Bob Iger said Disney will combine the two streaming services to create a "unified app experience."
Denver is planning to look at the feasibility of nuclear power generation for Denver International Airport.
The jewelry retailer geared toward adolescents has filed for bankruptcy for a second time since 2018.
The probe was sparked by a CBS News Colorado investigation in May that revealed the airport spent as much as $19,000. For one of its executives to fly to the three-day conference. Another ticket cost about $16,000.
The number of passengers suing American Airlines over an engine fire in March is now at 17, attorneys for those plaintiffs say. The fire happened aboard a Boeing 737 that had taken off from Colorado Springs en route to Dallas.
If you've been to Denver International Airport lately, you might have noticed the brand-new tiling that's part of the Great Hall Project is cracked in many places, and some tiles are held together with nothing but tape.
A Colorado business owner promising to build backyard buildings like saunas and sheds suddenly stopped delivering.
South Metro Fire Rescue, which serves nearly 600,000 residents in Arapahoe, Douglas and Jefferson counties, is forecasting a $20 to $30 million shortfall next year, followed by significant yearly budget shortfalls.