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Reasons to Love Denver 2021: Acts of Compassion
It s been pivotal past year for Denver, as the city faced overlapping crises and began to reckon with harmful parts of its past. While plenty of work still lies ahead, Denverites still found ways to show our neighbors we care. Corinne Anderson, Daliah Singer, Madi Skahill, Spencer Campbell •
July 1, 2021
1. Because we know when it’s time to name-drop.
Naming is power. And this past year, Denverites used it to reckon with the racist legacies that plague our city, one local symbol at a time. From Sunnyside’s La Raza Park (the moniker bestowed on what was Columbus Park is a nod to the area’s history as a center of Chicano activism) to Denver South High School’s new Raven mascot (formerly the Rebels), we are finally acknowledging that everyday places and symbols can be (not so) hidden harbors for hate.
It has been a year since we watched George Floyd, a Black man, die beneath the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer.
The cell phone footage of his brutal death sparked global protests that raged through the summer, igniting a long overdue conversation about racism in America.
For the last 12 months, young people have helped propel this country’s multifaceted racial reckoning. They have marched through the streets, supported equity in pandemic-era classrooms, kneeled on ball fields, created powerful activist art, spoken out on social media, and stood up for justice in spaces where young folks gather.
While former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of Floyd’s murder last month, the fight against systems that support racism, both implicit and explicit, is far from over.
Denver7 Everyday Hero weeding out hunger at Denver s South High School
Steff Grogan takes care of school s vegetable garden
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DENVER Outside Denver South High School, Steff Grogan is planting seeds the pandemic has left so many of us starving for. It s hope, it s hope, yeah, Grogan said.
It s a passion project she started last year. When the novel coronavirus closed the school and its student-run garden that provides fresh veggies for the school s food bank, Grogan and the nonprofit, Grow Local Colorado, stepped in to help. The students who usually take care of this garden, they werenât gonna be able to, so Jaclyn, who runs the food pantry here, contacted me and said, Would you guys be able to grow food here? said Barbara Masoner, co-founder for Grow Local Colorado.
A heavy routine has taken shape at some schools across the country.
A tragedy grips the nation often the killing of an unarmed Black man by police, but sometimes it’s a woman or a teenager and school leaders bring their students together to learn, to process, to grieve.
The conversations Wednesday, a day after a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty in the death of George Floyd, were in some ways unique. The verdict brought a measure of relief, a semblance of accountability in a death that served as a catalyst for a massive protest movement.
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