Jeffco Public Schools sued the Trump administration Tuesday for threatening $50 million in annual federal funding because of district policies that are inclusive of transgender students. The lawsuit stems from the U.S. Department of Education’s inquiries into the Colorado school district’s policies that allow transgender girls to access girls’ restrooms, participate in girls’ sports teams […]

One of the first Black state legislators in Colorado passed a civil rights law in 1895 that said public accommodations could not ban people of color.  Joseph Stuart, the second Black lawyer to practice in Colorado and the second Black member of the Colorado Legislature, led a bill the same year voters first elected him […]