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July 10, 2025: ‘Senseless’ explores overcoming shared trauma and community resiliency; Celebrating Black Arts!

By Chandra Thomas Whitfield
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Flowers and messages, some spiritual and some political, at the makeshift memorial outside King Soopers on Boulder’s Table Mesa Drive, a week after a gunman opened fire in the store March 22, 2021, killing 10 people.

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July 10, 2025: ‘Senseless’ explores overcoming shared trauma and community resiliency; Celebrating Black Arts!

Trauma can be a shared experience, but the journey to process it and overcome is often silenced. A new podcast by journalist Erika Mahoney hopes to change that and create connection. Her father Kevin was killed in a mass shooting at a Boulder grocery store in 2021. Then, rebates for EVs will soon be scaled back. And the Colorado Black Arts Festival returns for a 39th year this weekend!

Photo shows a band performing on a stage. The performers are mostly wearing white outfits. Across the top of the stage is a striped banner that reads "Kuumba Stage." There is an audience standing in the foreground.
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This weekend marks the 39th annual Colorado Black Arts Festival taking place in the heart of Denver's City Park. The family-friendly event is focused on preserving, amplifying, and celebrating Black arts and culture in Colorado.

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