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Shannon Robinson talks about becoming involved in student government at then Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado (now Colorado Mesa University), helping to coordinate the campus’s fundraiser in response to Hurricane Katrina, her AIDS activism, and being elected the first minority president of the student body. She discusses racism that she and other African-American students encountered at Mesa State in the early 2000’s and that her...
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David Combs talks about the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police, the ethnic makeup of Minneapolis (where Mr. Combs grew up), and the history of policing and police brutality there. He discusses the worldwide movement for social justice that grew from protests against Floyd’s killing, the response to Floyd’s killing in Grand Junction, Colorado, and the protest movement that took shape here. He addresses differences within the local African-American...
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David Combs talks about growing up in a diverse neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He discusses school segregation, and the difficulties he and other African-Americans faced in securing a good education at the high school level. He speaks about attending the University of South Dakota on a football scholarship, his experience as a Black person in a place with few other African-Americans, and stereotypes about Black athletes that he encountered...
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Janielle Westermire talks about growing up in Grand Junction, Colorado, where her father ministered at the Handy Chapel. She speaks about feeling she lived in a safe, close knit community, but also about racism she experienced as a child. She describes the inspiring life of her father, Harry Butler, who worked in hydrology with the Bureau of Reclamation before becoming the first African-American school board member in Mesa County and the first African-American...
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Antonio Clark talks about growing up in Denver, Colorado, and the important role of youth sports in his upbringing. He speaks about his career in high school sports and about being a walk-on as a football player at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction. He discusses racism that he experienced as an African-American on the CMU campus, but also his view that diversity on the campus has increased, and that some attitudes about race have changed. He...
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Local African-American activist David Combs talks about his reaction when Barack Obama was elected president of the United States in 2008 and 2012. He remembers feeling the audience’s excitement during Obama’s campaign speeches at Cross Orchards and Grand Junction High School. He speaks about Obama’s role in leading the nation’s discussion on race through incidents such as the death of Trayvon Martin. He discusses discrimination towards Obama...
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An organization of African-American citizens and their allies established by David Combs, A.J. Murray and others around 1982. Combs and his co-founders saw a need for an organization that advocated for black people in the area. The group created a Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at the Handy Chapel that has become very popular, and is now a county-wide event. They hold events for Black History Month and partner with Mesa County School District...
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Shannon Robinson talks about attending grade school in Gunnison, Colorado, where she was largely shunned or bullied by white students as the first African-American student to attend her elementary school. She speaks about living in Aurora, Colorado, where she made friends with other Black children, but also experienced bullying from children of all ethnic backgrounds because of her mixed race. She discusses getting to know other members of her African...
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Part 2 of our conversation with CMU Mass Communications Instructor Elaine Venter about #MeToo and the social media impact on the fight to end sexual harassment. Here we examine how to utilize social media technology to create social movements and what, if any, continued role online media will play in the ongoing evolution of the struggle for women's rights.
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This thesis has two main goals. First, it aims to resolve once and for all whether or not there was ever a history of African Americans in Napa County. It seems like a relatively simple question with an obvious answer, yet the population has always been so small that even Black Napans often joke with each other, "What Black people?" When white people are asked to discuss local African Americans, they usually either recite an urban legend about the...
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Probably recorded in the 1970's, Jerry Greene of KOTO Radio, in Telluride, Colorado, interviews Telluride's municipal judge and local attorney, Tom Goldsmith. This is part of KOTO's Radio shows, called Friday Live. Tom describes his career as a judge/attorney and owner of the bath house in Telluride. He also discusses his views on affordable housing in Telluride, and his hopes that Telluride does not become a purely resort community. Supported...
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A KOTO news cast, in Telluride, Colorado, from April through June of 1978, with Jerry Greene and Stephanie Shandera: Please see transcription section to jump to particular sections of this recording, using the timestamp links. 1.) HR39 Alaskan wilderness bill passed in Alaska: 5/20/1978 2.) Memorial day interviews with Jerry Greene. 3.) Water and the government’s role in water utilization with R. Keith Higginson (Commissioner of the US Bureau...
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A KOTO reel-to-reel newscast recording, from 10/30/79 through 12/13/79. Total length is about 1 hour, 23 minutes. The transcription, below, includes timestamps. Tracks include: 1. Allan Norris, from Ridgway, on hydroelectric power: 10/30/19 (10:20). 2. Hart to hart. (Senator Gary Hart) (4:20). 3. Interview Evie Haskall: 10/29/79 (20:26). 4. Halloween parade (4:06). 5. Experts from town council; Jerry Vass; Mountain on subdivision: 11/13//79...
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The second KOTO reel-to-reel newscast recording, from 1976-1977. Total length is about 1 hour, 34 minutes. Tracks include: 1. Kathy Kelly/Ken Boyer deaths 2. Interview with John Payne on title insurance 3. Phone interview with Miles Arbor about Beau Calloway/Crested Butte 4. Phone interview with Marshall Jim Hall on his resignation. 5. Steve Sulloway report on school board meeting: Vanest/Burley/Young building request to HPC. 6. Interview...