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Local Tuskegee Airmen have high hopes for Hollywood film

5:06 PM, Feb 6, 2012

DENVER - Col. Fitzroy "Buck" Newsum and his wife, Joan, were not quite used to the treatment they received at a recent movie premiere: a limousine, a reserved table and people attending to their every need. Perhaps they should have expected the royal treatment at that movie premiere because the movie was based on Col. Newsum and heroes like him.

Purnell Steen

9:48 AM, Feb 6, 2012

A long time native of Denver, Purnell Steen is a graduate of East High School and attended CU at Boulder.

PHOTOS: 25 most influential black American leaders

When Barack Obama was elected the first African-American president of the United States in November 2008, “never in my lifetime” was the popular refrain, especially among older African-Americans from the Jim Crow South who remembered grandparents who had been enslaved. Obama’s mixed race background (Kenyan father, white Midwestern mother), Ivy League pedigree (Columbia, Harvard Law), community activism on Chicago’s tough South Side as well as stints as an Illinois and U.S. senator, made him uniq

7:54 AM, Feb 1, 2012

We definitely shouldn't view this as just a top ten list. Instead, we should really ask ourselves what leaders, if any, would resonate today. (CREDIT: Ronda Racha Penrice)

Black History Month events calendar

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Quilts were maps for those seeking freedom

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Charles Burrell

9:49 AM, Feb 6, 2012

Charles Burrell was born April of 1920 in Toledo, Ohio. At the age of twelve, he heard the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under ...

Additional Resources

-Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library
-James P. Beckworth Mountain Club
-Black American West Museum
-The Kaleidoscope Project
-Five Points Business District
-Stiles African American Heritage Center
-Colorado Black Chamber of Commerce
-Colorado Association of Black Journalists
-Colorado History Museum

Police say husband of missing woman Josh Powell purposefully killed himself and his two sons. Stephanie Stanton reports. 9NEWS.com. 02/06/12

Autopsies: Josh Powell's sons suffered 'chop injuries'

GRAHAM, Wash. (AP) – Josh Powell's boys were coming for a visit, and he had preparations to make.

8:57 PM, Feb 6, 2012

Kathy Sabine has the latest weather forecast. 9NEWS at 9 p.m. 02/06/12

Colorado weather forecast: Here we go again: Another storm, more snow

DENVER - The chance for snow is back in Colorado's weather forecast, but this system will not be as big as our last one.

12:13 AM, Feb 7, 2012

Denver weather

Denver Colorado Weather Forecast

Last updated by Meteorologist Kathy Sabine

OVERNIGHT: Mostly cloudy with scattered snow showers. 1-3'' of accumulation across the metro area with the heavier snow west and south. Castle Rock down to Monument Hill up to 3 inches of new snow is possible by sunrise. Overnight lows will be from 8 to 13 degrees.

TUESDAY: Cloudy in the morning with areas of very light snow. Total snowfall will be at or less than one half of an inch in the metro area. Mostly cloudy in the afternoon with light wind. Partial afternoon clearing is expect but it will turn even colder with highs from 27 to 32 degrees.

12:12 AM, Feb 7, 2012