Equity /tags/equity Equity en-US Copyright ʹַ/Community Radio for Northern Colorado 2020 Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:07:47 GMT As private equity invests in child care, Colorado lawmakers seek guardrails /news/2025-02-19/as-private-equity-invests-in-child-care-colorado-lawmakers-seek-guardrails Dozens of child care centers on the Front Range are associated with or owned by private equity or venture capital firms. That's making some wonder whether these types of centers are helping or hurting the state's preschool system. Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:07:47 GMT /news/2025-02-19/as-private-equity-invests-in-child-care-colorado-lawmakers-seek-guardrails Ann Schimke, Chalkbeat Getting to the promised land: How former state lawmaker Wilma Webb created MLK Day in Colorado /podcast/inthenoco/2024-01-12/getting-to-the-promised-land-how-former-state-lawmaker-wilma-webb-created-mlk-day-in-colorado Amid the ongoing battle for racial justice, MLK Day, celebrated on Monday, gives us a moment to see where we’re going and what we still need to do. Today on In The NoCo, we hear from former state lawmaker Wilma Webb, who fought for years to bring MLK Day to Colorado. Fri, 12 Jan 2024 10:45:00 GMT /podcast/inthenoco/2024-01-12/getting-to-the-promised-land-how-former-state-lawmaker-wilma-webb-created-mlk-day-in-colorado In The NoCo, Stephanie Daniel ‘At that moment the movie was Indian:’ Osages in Colorado reflect on ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ /in-the-noco/2023-11-30/at-that-moment-the-movie-was-indian-osages-in-colorado-reflect-on-killers-of-the-flower-moon The film “Killers of the Flower Moon” has elicited strong reactions, especially from the people at the center of the narrative — Osage citizens. In The NoCo discusses some of their reactions with ʹַ reporter Emma VandenEinde. Thu, 30 Nov 2023 10:45:00 GMT /in-the-noco/2023-11-30/at-that-moment-the-movie-was-indian-osages-in-colorado-reflect-on-killers-of-the-flower-moon In The NoCo Colorado's Indian boarding schools require us to confront a legacy of ‘difficult truths’ /podcast/inthenoco/2023-11-08/colorados-indian-boarding-schools-require-us-to-confront-a-legacy-of-difficult-truths Some Coloradans are for the first time confronting a hard truth about our recent past. A new state report uncovers the abuse and death that occurred at Indian boarding schools here well into the 1960s. In The NoCo unwraps some of this reckoning and the process of healing. Wed, 08 Nov 2023 10:45:00 GMT /podcast/inthenoco/2023-11-08/colorados-indian-boarding-schools-require-us-to-confront-a-legacy-of-difficult-truths In The NoCo ‘It’s for everybody.’ Violinist and author Brendan Slocumb plays and writes with access, representation in mind /podcast/inthenoco/2023-11-03/its-for-everybody-violinist-and-author-brendan-slocumb-plays-and-writes-with-access-representation-in-mind When violinist and author Brendan Slocumb visits schools, students don’t believe the music educator plays the violin. He tells In The NoCo why he doesn’t fit the mold — and how he’s working to break it — ahead of his talk in Fort Collins on Sunday. Fri, 03 Nov 2023 09:45:00 GMT /podcast/inthenoco/2023-11-03/its-for-everybody-violinist-and-author-brendan-slocumb-plays-and-writes-with-access-representation-in-mind In The NoCo News brief with The Colorado Sun: Teachers ask for help overturning 'American Birthright' curriculum /news/2023-10-10/news-brief-with-the-colorado-sun-teachers-ask-for-help-overturning-american-birthright-curriculum Reporter Michael Booth from The Colorado Sun joined us to discuss current turmoil within Woodland Park School District over social studies curriculum. Tue, 10 Oct 2023 18:52:13 GMT /news/2023-10-10/news-brief-with-the-colorado-sun-teachers-ask-for-help-overturning-american-birthright-curriculum Nikole Robinson Carroll Number of Indian boarding schools in Colorado grows as researchers continue investigation /news/2022-12-23/number-of-indian-boarding-schools-in-colorado-grows-as-researchers-continue-investigation Colorado was home to roughly 10 schools that assimilated Native students during the late 1800s and early 1900s, according to a new report by History Colorado. Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:33:00 GMT /news/2022-12-23/number-of-indian-boarding-schools-in-colorado-grows-as-researchers-continue-investigation Robyn Vincent Colorado’s outdoor visitors are overwhelmingly white and wealthy. A new initiative hopes to change that. /news/2022-08-12/colorados-outdoor-visitors-are-overwhelmingly-white-and-wealthy-a-new-initiative-hopes-to-change-that Colorado’s trails, campgrounds and parks are getting more crowded. But surveys show the droves of visitors are overwhelmingly white and wealthy. A new initiative launching this summer hopes to change that. Fri, 12 Aug 2022 21:43:27 GMT /news/2022-08-12/colorados-outdoor-visitors-are-overwhelmingly-white-and-wealthy-a-new-initiative-hopes-to-change-that Scott Franz Labor Department's jobs reports omit most economically stressed demographic – Native Americans /news/2021-11-18/the-labor-departments-monthly-jobs-reports-omit-most-economically-stressed-demographic-native-americans A new Brookings Institution analysis helps fill the data gap, finding that nearly 40% of Native Americans saw cuts in work hours or pay over the last year – higher than all other racial or ethnic groups. Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:09:57 GMT /news/2021-11-18/the-labor-departments-monthly-jobs-reports-omit-most-economically-stressed-demographic-native-americans Robyn Vincent On Native American mascots and the meaning of historical oblivion /news/2021-11-17/on-native-american-mascots-and-the-meaning-of-historical-oblivion Indigenous and constitutional law experts say a lawsuit filed earlier this month challenging Colorado’s ban on Native American mascots could blunt the national movement that's rejecting such racist and harmful imagery. Wed, 17 Nov 2021 22:56:45 GMT /news/2021-11-17/on-native-american-mascots-and-the-meaning-of-historical-oblivion Robyn Vincent