When Kwame Spearman was growing up in Denver, he loved visiting the Hue-Man bookstore in Five Points because the characters in the books on the shelves looked like him.

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The police shooting of Paul Childs, a 15-year-old with developmental disabilities, rocked the Denver community in 2003. The killing led to the creation of an independent monitor, a watchdog over the city's police and sheriff's departments. Nick Mitchell was only the second person to step into that role in Denver. He spent 8 years working with communities and law enforcement. And he's moving on, just as the DPD reckons with how it handled last summer's Black Lives Matter protests.

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Colorado Public Radio turned 50 this year, and to mark it we did stories about the state then and now. To kick off the retrospective, host Ryan Warner and producer Xandra McMahon dig through the CPR archives for radio and state history. Then, how Colorado came to be known as the “Napa Valley of beer.” And how the state’s music has changed in half a century.