“We’re trying to save a legacy,” says Fathima Dickerson, one of the Welton Street Cafe’s five co-owners. For more than two decades, the restaurant at 2736 Welton Street has been a hub for the Black community in the Five Points neighborhood and the source of great fried chicken. In fact, it just won the Best Southern/Soul Restaurant award in the Best of Denver 2021.
But now it’s in danger of closing because of a broken HVAC system, which controls the building s heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems. Without air conditioning, the kitchen can reach temperatures above 100 degrees, causing appliances to fail and creating unworkable conditions. The cost to repair the system and deal with additional maintenance issues is estimated at $50,000, and the restaurant just doesn t have money to cover the cost.
Join the fun at the two-day series of Latin Concerts in the historic Five Points district.
The musical extravaganza hosts Latino flavored jazz artists in locations along Welton Street, including Agave Shore, the newest taco and tequila hub where party people also have an opportunity to learn salsa dancing.
Bring a lawn chair and or blanket and get comfy in our beloved Cousins Plaza to enjoy the music!
Friday, May 7
at Cousins Plaza, 2401 Welton St
7:30-9 pm Conjunto Colores Band
at Five Points Plaza, 2736 Welton St
Saturday, May 8
Five Points Plaza, 2736 Welton St
2:00 pm
3 pm Salsa Dance Lessons with Jose Rosales aka “Chepe”
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Denverite, the Denver site! Historic Colorado KKK membership documents, newly published, show white supremacy was rampant in 1920s Denver
There were about 107,000 white men living in Denver in 1920. Documents suggest close to 30,000 of them were registered members of the Ku Klux Klan.
An excerpt of a KKK membership ledger, dating to the 1920s, that History Colorado published online in its entirety.
Monyett Ellington moved to Denver in 1938, before Black families like hers could buy houses east of High Street. She remembers a childhood when adults around her spoke in hushed tones about dangers the Ku Klux Klan posed to their community, about crosses burning in front lawns and threats the hate group might march Welton Street through the center of Black life in the city.
Norman Provizer Share Though you didn’t find very much in the way of jazz on the delayed Grammy Awards show, it did, in its own way, serve as a strong tribute to Chick Corea who passed from the scene on February 9, 2021. The Chick from Chelsea won a Grammy for best-improvised jazz solo and a second award for best jazz instrumental album. The first was for his work on “All Blues” on the Trilogy 2 disc, while the second named that same disc (that has Brian Blade on drums and Christian McBride on bass) as the best instrumental jazz release of the year.