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ADL to Urban Outfitters: Remove Tapestry “Eerily Reminiscent” of Holocaust Garb

  A photo taken by an Anti-Defamation League employee of a tapestry for sale at the Boulder, CO Urban Outfitters store has since made headlines world-wide.  The tapestry’s design was “eerily reminiscent” of the gray and white stripes and pink triangles found on uniforms that gay male prisoners were forced to wear in Nazi concentration camps. While the offending item is no longer

ADL Civil Rights Awards Given to Former Speaker Terrance Carroll and Senator Pat Steadman

Over 175 civic leaders and community members gathered on January 28th at the Denver Art Museum to honor former Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives Terrance Carroll and Senator Pat Steadman at the Anti-Defamation League – Mountain States Region’s 33rd annual Civil Rights Awards Reception. Terrance Carroll is a lawyer and ordained minister, and served as the 54th Speaker

Mountain States Spotlight with Chelsea Canada

Chelsea Canada, CU Boulder Student Body President and Colorado’s 2014 Ambassador on ADL’s Campus Leadership Mission to Israel talks about why she is passionate about dance, Israel, and the mission of the Anti-Defamation League.   How are you involved with ADL? I was honored to attend the Campus Leadership Mission to Israel in December 2014. It was my only time

ADL Remembers Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dozens of ADL supporters gathered at the offices of the Mountain States Anti-Defamation League to remember the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and then joined with a record-breaking crowd of over 30,000 civil rights supporters who chose to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day “A Day On, Not a Day Off” by walking in Denver’s annual Martin

Mountain States ADL Joins with NAACP at Unity Luncheon

ADL Mountain States Assistant Director Jeremy Shaver represented the Anti-Defamation League at an NAACP Unity Luncheon with NAACP National President Cornell William Brooks on January 24. The luncheon was part of a weekend of events with Dr. Brooks in Colorado Springs after an explosion outside the NAACP Colorado Springs office earlier this month.   Reflects Shaver:   “The Unity Luncheon