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Jenny’s life finally seemed to be heading in the right direction. There was her house, near Sloan’s Lake, that she shared with her white terrier, Benny. In her free time, she created oil paintings. Pandemic restrictions were easing by then, which meant she could spend more time with her friends.

Leadville’s first Black police chief alleges he was driven from the job by racist officers and a city administrator who rallied together to force him out of the largely white police department, according to a newly filed federal lawsuit against the city.

A woman who has spent years volunteering for the Jefferson-Como Fire Protection District now claims age and gender discrimination prevented her from being hired full-time in a new Federal case filed Monday. Cynthia Winner spent years as a volunteer search and rescuer in Park County with a goal of becoming a full-time firefighter. After four […]

Jurors ruled the Colorado High School Activities Association should pay former Sand Creek assistant basketball coach $2.5 million in race discrimination case. William ‘Trey’ Harris III was hired by District 49 in 2016 as an assistant basketball coach at Sand Creek High School. The complaint alleges Harris was falsely blamed for a transfer violation and […]

International Meat Processing Giant Agrees to Settle Claims That It Discriminated Against Employees Based on Race, National Origin and Religion. JBS USA LLC, doing business as JBS Swift & Company, will pay up to $5.5 million and provide other relief to end a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charging race, […]

For more than four decades, manufacturing was the only work Donetta Raymond knew. Fresh from high school, she followed her father to the factory floor because, she said, “It was the best-paying job around. Starting as a sheet metal mechanic, Ms. Raymond found plenty of work in her hometown, Wichita, Kan., home to famous names […]

The Black former police chief of a small Colorado town says he was the victim of racial discrimination and fired after officers and city leaders worked to force him out even though he was cleared of wrongdoing by an independent investigator, according to a federal lawsuit.