Colorado Community Gathers to Support Women, Agriculture in East Africa

Climate and the Environment, East Africa, Headline

Thanks to Den­ver-based Africa Devel­op­ment Promise (ADP), an esti­mat­ed 150 peo­ple came out to wit­ness the work that the Amer­i­can NGO does, thou­sands of miles away from its Col­orado head­quar­ters. Billed as a Win­ter Gala, the fundrais­ing event occurred on Sat­ur­day, March 4. The loca­tion was the Arva­da Cen­ter for the Arts and Human­i­ties.  Attendees…

Ethiopians in Colorado

Ethiopi­ans are con­sid­ered the fastest-grow­ing immi­grant group in the Unit­ed States. This obser­va­tion is also applic­a­ble to Col­orado, where the num­ber of Ethiopi­ans in the state con­tin­ues to grow. There are near­ly 30,000 Ethiopi­ans who live in the Den­ver metro area alone, accord­ing to infor­ma­tion obtained from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Col­orado (CU) in Boul­der. “Their culture,…

Black People in Colorado

Black Demographics in Colorado

  BLACK DEMOGRAPHICS IN COLORADO The Black Demo­graph­ics in Col­orado is low com­pared to oth­er races. Yet the Black com­mu­ni­ty in the state is said to be grow­ing. Col­orado is often con­sid­ered one of the Best Places to Live in the Unit­ed States. The Cen­ten­ni­al State is known for many things, includ­ing its beau­ti­ful mountain…

Colorado Immigration Lawyers

Often­times new immi­grants to the Unit­ed States have to nav­i­gate a dif­fi­cult envi­ron­ment in their new­found home in order to meet the require­ments of legal res­i­den­cy. This process can be very chal­leng­ing. New immi­grants who enter the US with­out a Green Card or some type of legal res­i­den­cy may have their stay chal­lenged by employers…

Colorado Black Elected Officials

There are Democ­rats (D), as well as Repub­li­cans ® serv­ing in elect­ed office in Col­orado. Welling­ton Webb, the for­mer may­or of Den­ver served for 12 years in the mayor’s office. Cur­rent may­or Michael Han­cock will fin­ish his third term as may­or in 2023. Col­orado Black Elect­ed Offi­cials rep­re­sent just a small frac­tion of the state’s…

Colorado Taste of Africa

  Col­orado Taste of Africa The Col­orado Taste of Africa is an annu­al Africa-focused event that brings togeth­er the African com­mu­ni­ty in Col­orado to cel­e­brate the continent’s peo­ples, cul­tures, and busi­ness­es in a friend­ly com­mu­ni­ty atmos­phere. How­ev­er, there are sev­er­al groups in the state that iden­ti­fy as the Col­orado Taste of Africa. Yet the one…

African Diaspora in Colorado

African Dias­po­ra in Col­orado The African Dias­po­ra in Col­orado, those that left the African con­ti­nent will­ing­ly, and some­times unwill­ing­ly, and migrat­ed to the Unit­ed States, are a sim­ple, dis­tinct class of peo­ple that con­sti­tute part of the pop­u­la­tion of the state. They form a part of the black pop­u­la­tion in Col­orado.  They are dif­fer­ent from…

African Soccer Clubs in Colorado

A lot of peo­ple ask us about the exis­tence of any African soc­cer clubs in Col­orado. Often, we’ve direct­ed them to oth­er web­sites where they can obtain this infor­ma­tion.  This list includes the Unit­ed Pre­miere Soc­cer League which is com­posed of some of the best Col­o­ra­do-based African soc­cer play­ers in the state. The teams include…

Africans in Colorado

The pop­u­la­tion of African-born immi­grants in the Unit­ed States con­tin­ues to grow. The Den­ver metro area, includ­ing Auro­ra, Lake­wood, Boul­der, and Col­orado Springs con­tin­ues to attract many Africans in Col­orado. These Africans in Col­orado are the own­ers of small busi­ness­es, gas sta­tions, gro­cery stores, and non­prof­it orga­ni­za­tions. often they’ve endured so much to get to…