Chloé Duplessis, the program manager for Colorado’s racial equity study, stands in the History Colorado archives in Denver on July 21. (Delilah Brumer/Colorado Newsline)
As History Colorado researchers enter the ninth month of work on a state-mandated racial equity study, they are analyzing the discrimination faced by — and the contributions of — Black residents, starting in Colorado’s mid-1800s territorial days and going through to the present.
Existing documentation of such history is fragmented, but researchers are working to fill in the gaps, the study’s leaders said during a Wednesday presentation at the Colorado Capitol to the Black Coloradan Racial Equity Study Commission. The commission was established in June 2024 and oversees the History Colorado study…