With the legislative session over, let’s take a break from divisive politics to take in some news that all Coloradans can celebrate: the first Denver Nugget — ever — has
With the legislative session over, let’s take a break from divisive politics to take in some news that all Coloradans can celebrate: the first Denver Nugget — ever — has
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Haywood s origin is as remote as you can imagine, and the harshness of its path is hardly matched. Born in remote
Silver City of western Mississippi, which was not silver or even a city, as our protagonist used to joke about.
Spencer was the youngest of eleven siblings and would lose his father just three months after his birth. Although slavery had been abolished less than a century earlier in 1865, it was not unusual to find places in the southern United States where servitude and oppression towards African-American communities continued in force. Camouflaged through installed practices like working as sharecroppers for large landowners or living in segregated areas of cities, away from white neighborhoods. In Haywood s case, he knew in his early years what life was like in the crop field,
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