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The Denver City Council on Monday approved a $50,000 settlement for former mayoral candidate and civil rights activist Terrance Roberts for police conduct during a July 2020 protest.

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CU’s International Film Series hosted an advance screening and Q&A panel with the director and subject of "The Holly." By Emi Ambory

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by The Sentinel Colorado and was shared via AP StoryShare. It was written by Carina Julig, a Sentinel Gang violence in the metro area and beyond has long been a problem, and reporter Julian Rubinstein delivers a much needed long-look, this time on the screen.

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The Holly Explores the History of Gang Violence and Police Tensions in Northeast Denver We spoke with acclaimed journalist Julian Rubinstein, who spent seven years reporting on Park Hill and Five Points for the new book. Jordan Cutler-Tietjen •   May 11, 2021 In 2013, beloved Denver anti-gang activist Terrance Roberts shot a man at a peace rally he had organized. In New York City, a world away, Julian Rubinstein wondered how such a moment could come to pass. Unable to find robust answers, ...

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Unlike the articles he read in the Denver media, Rubinstein didn’t want to shine undue light on the city’s power brokers, and instead spent most of his time reporting on what he calls “invisible Denver” — the neighborhood communities, activist circles and even gangs that are so often ignored by the mainstream press. “What I wanted to do — and it turned out to be even more important than I first realized — was to tell this story mostly from the perspecti...

The HOLLY: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood , which was released May 11. This excerpt from The HOLLY picks up as Rubinstein is looking for the answer to a question that echoes through the book: Why did activist Terrance Roberts shoot Hasan Jones? As a steady rise in Denver’s gang violence continued, the city’s federal anti-gang effort was conspicuously absent from public reporting. I couldn’t find any mention of it since the prestigious grant had b...