Thought it would be a cowtown, and far colder than Chicago.
"Most of my fellow African-Americans back East think of Denver as a tundra. But I went jogging this morning in a tank top, and I know they did not.
"There are lots of other things here that I think are phenomenal, like the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, only one of five such places in the country.
"It's a good place to see not just African- American history throughout the nation, but especially throughout Colorado and the Denver metro area. Many people don't realize that one-third of the settlers and cowboys here were African-American."
| A quote from RTL Networks founder Richard Lewis in Colleen O'Connor's Denver Post article "City's black boosters get an All-Star break"
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