Colorado Alliance of Latino Mentors and Authors America’s 250 and Colorado 150th Celebration Colorado Alliance of Latino Mentors and Authors (CALMA) proudly joins our sisters and brothers in the celebration of the 250th Birthday of the signing of the Declaration for Independence as well as Colorado’s 150th birthday as a state. An overriding purpose for the creation of CALMA was to recognize, reignite and encourage t

We know the story of America's founding. It started at Jamestown in 1607 with the first permanent English colony, then moved on to the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock in 1620. We followed these English-speaking colonists whose stern impassioned tread blazed a trail across the wilderness, eventually growing their settlements into the thirteen colonies who declared their independence from Britain in 1776. We are the heirs of those visionaries who fought for freedom and the creation o

A poem written in May 2026

The Undocumented Speak Out Everybody has a story to tell. It doesn't matter who you are or who your audience is. This is true even for recent arrivals in this country.You can still speak, still shout out, "Hello, America! I'm here!" This is true, even if you are one of those people who are invisible, identified only by the label that in the minds of many renders you a non-person, an alien somebody. But you have personhood. You can still say, "I am somebody. I have a right to