Responding to press reports of allegations that a 50-year-old African American Fort Collins man was attacked and beaten by two white men because of his race, the Anti-Defamation League condemned the alleged bias-motivated crime. “Hate crimes are message crimes,” said Bruce H. DeBoskey, ADL’s Mountain States Regional Director. “Perpetrators of hate crimes send a message to their victims and everyone

Denver Daily News By: Peter Marcus State Rep. Alice Madden will redraft legislation that would prevent faith-based nonprofits from discriminating against employees that do not share similar religious beliefs. A protest of the proposed legislation, however, will continue as planned even though the legislation does not address faith-based programs and curriculums. House Bill 1080 — as currently drafted – would

This article originally ran in the Rocky Mountain News. By: Jean Torkelson A bill that addresses employment discrimination has set loose the B word – bigotry – in a clash this week between Archbishop Charles Chaput and Bruce DeBoskey, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League. In his newspaper column published Wednesday, Chaput urges Catholic voters to protest HB 1080 as

This column ran in the January 2008 edition of the Denver Urban Spectrum. This fall, an African-American employee of the Arapahoe County Weatherization Department found a noose hanging in the cab of one of the department’s work trucks. A month later, another African-American colleague found a second noose in a department insulation trailer. Two months later, yet another noose was

Boulder Daily Camera This editorial ran in the Boulder Daily Camera on December 25, 2007. The Orthodox Jewish community celebrated this week when the Boulder City Council voted in favor of granting a lease to provide for the implementation of an eruv — a virtually unnoticeable, non-taxpayer funded symbolic boundary that will provide a greater quality of life for many