In “What’d I Miss?” Ossie reveals that while he’s never even been in a fight, he still has to wrestle with the perception of the Black man as superhuman threat.
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Opinion: Zero-tolerance isn’t working. We need a restorative approach to drug addiction.
People with addictions don’t need forced sobriety; they need agency and connection.
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“What’d I Miss?”: Ossie realizes the power of a smartphone — and an ally
In “What’d I Miss?” Ossie recounts how an incident in Arizona last week reinforced the value of video when a Wall Street Journal reporter was detained and cuffed by police.
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Littwin: Justice prevailed in the racist killing of Ahmaud Arbery, but we should remember that it almost didn’t
In the end, you could say that justice was done in the case of the death of Ahmaud Arbery. But you could also say — and should remember — that it was a near thing, that without the eventual release of a damning video showing the murder of a Black man killed while jogging, there’s […]
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Littwin: The Arbery-killing trial is not a do-over for Kyle Rittenhouse, even though it feels that way
Update 11:55 am: The jury wasted little time in finding all three defendants in the vigilante shooting of Ahmaud Arbery guilty of murder. The man who pulled the trigger, Travis McMichael, was guilty on all nine counts. Greg McMichael was found guilty on eight counts and William Roddy Bryan Jr. guilty on six. They all […]
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Jim Morrissey: Justice for Elijah McClain delayed…but finally on its way
More cartoons from The Colorado Sun.
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SunLit interview: “The Holly” author Julian Rubinstein reflects on the story and its challenges
Julian Rubinstein is an award-winning journalist, author and producer. His new non-fiction book, “The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood,” was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in May 2021. Julian’s first non-fiction book, Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best […]
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Silverman: Let’s not hide from the racism in our history. We can learn from it.
The truth about Colorado and America’s racial history is out there, especially in three recent well-researched books by talented authors. Recommended for your summer reading is “Grant,” “Forget the Alamo,” and “The Holly.” Two hundred years ago, the border between Mexico and the United States traversed Colorado and extended to parts of Kansas, Wyoming and […]
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“Everything is still the same”: A year after protests, young Coloradans don’t think anyone is listening anymore
Melissa Boateng is still scared. It’s a quiet fear, not one expressed through echoes of rally chants and parades of protesters, but one that follows her from her Denver home out into her community. This time last year, Boateng, now 18, had recently led a youth-centered Black Lives Matter protest that drew a crowd of […]
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Littwin: The truth is that Derek Chauvin was easy to convict. As for racial justice, the jury is still out.
The verdict is in: At least one Black life did matter. That George Floyd’s life had to be lost first — with a police officer’s knee, which might as well have been a boot, grinding into his neck — is no less a tragedy. But the verdict still holds. The question facing the country now […]