Aurora Bans Use of Ketamine While Elijah McClain Investigation Continues
Aurora City Council voted on Monday, September 14, to temporarily ban the city's emergency responders from using ketamine until the investigation into Elijah Mc...
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The Breath Project Gives Artists of Color the Spotlight With 8:46 Minute Performances
Art records a moment in time through the eyes of its creator. In a time when social injustice is rampant but the fight against it has poured out into the street...
The Block Distilling Co. Cements Itself into Denver’s Liquor Foundation
In March 2020, The Block Distilling Co. released its second iteration of the Four Grain whiskey. In the piece of 2020 that followed, the relatively young distil...
Public Outrage Changed the Elijah McClain Case, but Saturday’s Police Response Shows Issues Persist
Nearly one year after Elijah McClain died after an excessively aggressive encounter with a handful of officers from the Aurora Police Department (APD), his name...
Calling All Violin Players – Local Musicians Organize Musical Vigil For Elijah McClain
As the awakening of America toward police brutality and racial injustice continues, Colorado residents are coming to know the inequalities happening within our ...
Local Creatives Raise Money and Awareness for Elijah McClain With the Say My Name Shirt
It’s two months shy of the one-year anniversary of Elijah McClain’s tragic death at the hands of three Aurora police officers. McClain, a massage therapist and ...
Spray Their Names Aims to Paint Murals That Honor Lives Lost and Amplify Marginalized Voices
Art is a responsive media — even when a global pandemic and weeks of protests aren't simultaneously occurring. Many artists are like sponges, soaking everything...
Three Cases That Explain Why Police Accountability Is Desperately Important in Colorado
Although Black Lives Matter protests in Denver have been attributed to outrage over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, many local activists and fami...