‘Focused on healing’: Denver apologizes for anti-Chinese race riot
What causes a town to disappear without a trace?
In the case of a vanished Chinatown: hate.
On Saturday, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock apologized to descendants of early Chinese immigrants for the Colorado capital’s complicity in “nearly a century of violence and discrimination.” That included the dissolution of the city’s Chinatown, a decadeslong vanishing act after an anti-Chinese race riot.
Following similar contrition in at least four other cities in California, the apology comes amid raised awareness of pandemic-related aggression against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. It also affirms the work of local advocates seeking to correct the
