This month Denver Urban Spectrum celebrate mothers; aka women.
Charles Emmons talks about three women who got together over coffee in 1939 and decided to fill the need to bring hope to disenfranchised communities. For the next 80 years, 32 women have continued those efforts and the Denver Delta Sigma Theta Alumnae will celebrate the power of sisterhood, scholarship and service with their 80th anniversary celebration, The Power of Red.
Although never a mother, Dr. Justina Ford, also known as the Lady Doctor, is credited for helping thousands of mothers. Thomas Holt Russell shares how and why she brought more than 7,000 babies into the world – many who still live in Denver and can attest to that fact.
Executive Consultant and journalism professor Alfonzo Porter looks at the grim and glaring somewhat growing epidemic, and number of African American children who are compelled to take their own lives across the country.