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Counterrally planned to confront Confederate flag ride

Organizers aim to defy display of Confederate symbol

DATE: Mar 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Niece of MLK applies civil rights message to unborn in Durango speech

Alveda King delivers pro-life message

DATE: Feb 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Cortez police likely to face lawsuit in Make My Day case

A Denver attorney has confirmed that a civil lawsuit is likely against the Cortez Police Department in connection to a 2014 Make My Day criminal trial. In a 1,154-word letter date...

DATE: Jan 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

March, rally, songs mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Fort Lewis College

A newly discovered speech by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. aired Monday on Fort Lewis College’s radio station, KDUR-FM, as more than 100 students marched on campus in honor of the assassinated...

DATE: Jan 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Poll: Online surveillance is OK for most

WASHINGTON – A majority of Americans say they support warrantless government surveillance of the Internet communications of U.S. citizens, according to a new poll by The Associated Press and...

DATE: Dec 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

State gun rights expand after Sandy Hook massacre

IOWA CITY, Iowa – The 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in which a mentally troubled young man killed 26 children and educators, served as a rallying cry for gun-control advocat...

DATE: Dec 13, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Lawsuit filed in intoxicated man’s 2013 death in Montezuma County jail

An Albuquerque attorney has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in connection to the 2013 death of a Navajo man in the Montezuma County jail. In a 40-page complaint filed last we...

DATE: Nov 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

‘America, we can’t breathe’

20 years after Million Man March, there is now a fresh call for justice

DATE: Oct 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

‘Rosa Parks’ to come to life in living history program

In a year when race relations have come back to the front page, who could be a more apropos speaker than Rosa Parks? Known as the “first lady” of the civil-rights movement, Parks ...

DATE: Sep 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

School dedicated for ‘forgotten’ Mexican-American scholar

ALBUQUERQUE – Decades after leaving New Mexico in disgrace, a noted Mexican-American scholar and key figure in school desegregation got a school dedicated in his honor in his hometown of Alb...

DATE: Aug 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News