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Koehler has researched Coronado Motel for years and said it’s listing in The Green Book is a testament to it’s importance in history.

Ruth Steele received the 2017 MLK Lifetime Achievement Award

Shelby Steele’s work stresses the importance of blacks accepting the burdens of freedom—and rejecting narrow racial claims.

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Axes, knives and throwing stars being aimed and launched through the air by people hoping to lodge them deep into the heart of a target may sound like a scene from a culturally confusing action movie, but at Jack’s Axe Throwing in Pueblo, it’s a fun, family-friendly activity. “It’s really about the experience,” said Bryan Rossmanith, the business’ owner and founder. “It’s something no one has really done in this manner. Maybe some people have thrown axes in the woods or maybe we...

“That’s Ruth,” Brown said. “She was definitely lovingly persistent. She didn’t give up and she never gave in. If she wanted it she just kept driving for it.” Another of Steele’s crowning achievements involved a one-of-a-kind statue that was previously located in Denver’s City Park. The statue depicts King with Emett Till, the 14-year-old African American boy lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. It is believed to be the only statue of its kind....

Pueblo humanitarian Ruth Steele, who spent her entire life advocating for civil rights and the preservation of Black history, died Jan. 17 from stomach cancer at the age of 85. Steele, a founder of the Pueblo Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Commission, was best known for her efforts to bring the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday to Pueblo in the 1980s and her preservation of the historic Lincoln Home — a former orphanage and senior home for Pueblo’s Black population that Steele later trans...