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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.

A virtual forum for congressional candidates, a summer reading carnival and a charity mini-golf tournament are among the things to do in Pueblo in the coming days.

Pueblo fighting substance use, ending stigma for treatment through exhibit KOAA News5 and last updated 2021-07-01 20:31:19-04 PUEBLO — A local community is taking on the fight against substance use and the stigma around getting treatment. It's all happening through a traveling art exhibit showcased by the Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment. The traveling exhibit is called "Your Words Have Power," and those words are an opportunity to educate the Pueblo community and help fight substance use. "I think that people with substance abuse issues are just like you and me, they'r...

“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. “Once she was able to get the Lincoln Home turned into a museum I think she went back to (Denver)...

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 transformed into the Pueblo Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Commission and Cultural Center and Museum...