Luminaries celebrate a more diverse, welcoming campus

Being Black on campus two decades ago was difficult, but the University of Colorado Boulder has worked to improve its culture, says Aba Arthur, who costarred in last year’s production of The Color Purple. Arthur joined a half-dozen luminaries—including Gov. Jared Polis, CU President Todd Saliman, CU Boulder Chancellor Phil DiStefano and Boulder County NAACP President Annett James—to hail CAAAS Day, a Colorado event recognizing the university’s Center for African and African American Studies.