Tickets for Saturday’s USC-Colorado game sold out so fast that the mayor of Boulder couldn’t even get one, and Deion Sanders has brought a wave of Black interest to a predominantly-white town.
LOS ANGELES — There is exactly one soul food restaurant in Boulder, Colorado, a mom-and-daughter catering company located a mile from the University of Colorado campus.
Recently, she looked up Colorado’s new-look football roster and sent an email to just about every Black person she could find, complete with pictures of offerings from her restaurant: Rae’s and Kay’s Melting Pot, offering a mix of soul food and Puerto Rican cuisine cooked by Rae and mom Char Kay. Collard greens. Ribs. Cornbread.was going to respond once they saw this, Rae figured, in a town where the next-nearest search for a soul food place rumbles you well up Route 36 to Gunbarrel.
For years, Rae felt like she could pick out everyone who was Black in Boulder, a city with a tiny African-American population. And suddenly, on CU’s campus, Rae said, she felt like she was “almost down South.”many Black people on this campus!’” Rae said, referring to a conversation with a member of the CU staff.In one swift motion since his December hire, Sanders hasinto a content machine, a perfect storm of explosive talent behind his viral image.
Before packed houses at Folsom Field came packed houses at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium, the sellouts just the same for Coach Prime at Jackson State, seats and surrounding hotels filled to the brim any direction you pointed.calling for action on Jackson’s water crisis
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