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Using White Privilege to Ban Guns (yesmagazine.org)

Here 4 the Kids, a group led by Black, Brown, and Indigenous women and supported by white women committed to ending gun violence, staged a three-day sit-in at the Colorado State Capitol in Denver on June 5, 2023, asking Gov. Jared Polis to issue an executive order banning guns and instituting a buyback program in the state. PHOTO BY RJ SANGOSTI/MEDIANEWS GROUP/THE DENVER POST VIA GETTY IMAGES To read more of Jonita Davis' article, please click here. Their biggest challenge is going to be...

The Bizarre — and Hypothetical — Case That Sparked the Supreme Court's Regressive LGBTQ+ Discrimination Ruling (people.com)

Lorie Smith, the Christian web designer who sparked a landmark Supreme Court decision. PHOTO: RACHEL WOOLF FOR THE WASHINGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAGES To read more of Virginia Chamlee's article, please click here. On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow a Christian web designer to refuse her services to LGBTQ+ people, a historic decision that walks back hard-fought human rights battles and paves the way for businesses to legally discriminate based on a person's sexual orientation or...

On the Ute Mountain Ute reservation, a new school aims to preserve culture, language, sense of community (coloradosun,com)

First-grade student RedSky Lang draws on the whiteboard during a Ute language vocabulary game led by Betty Howe, a tribal elder and Ute language teacher. (Shannon Mullane, Special to The Colorado Trust) To read more of Mark Stevens' article, please click here. Twelve miles south of Cortez, in the southwest corner of Colorado, a right turn on Mike Wash Road leads three miles up to the town of Towaoc on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation. Towaoc is pronounced toy-awk . The town is due east of...

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