Wellington Webb
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"Wellington E. Webb" is the first African American Mayor of Denver. The Webb family relocated to the Northeast section of Denver, where the imposing six-foot, five-inch youth became active in sports. He is a graduate of the city's Manual High School. Webb was an all-conference basketball player at Northeastern Junior College in Sterling, Colorado, in 1960. He obtained his B.A. in sociology from Colorado State College at Greeley in 1964 and his M.A. in sociology from the University of Northern Colorado at Greeley in 1971.

He is married to Wilma Webb, and they have four children.

Webb is the former president of the Democratic Mayors and the past president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and National Conference of Black Mayors. He lectures frequently on civic issues and was a guest lecturer at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Webb collaborates closely with his wife, former Colorado State Representative Wilma J. Webb.

In 2001, Webb served on the selection committee for the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence.

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What's so bizarre about this, ... is for the past three months the Colorado legislature has been trying to abolish all legislation dealing with guns.

When a community is grieving and going through a mourning, when you have more than 65,000 people showing up for services and people are burying these kids, you shouldn't have a meeting that talks about selling more guns.

Hypocrisy at its highest level.

George Bush is the enemy.

A lot of the athletes from all 30 teams in the major leagues do give a lot back, ... Luis is one of those that when you say $1 million, personally, and 1,000 hours of volunteer work -- those are MVP statistics.

They pass laws here in the Congress, they pass them in the states -- it all dwindles down to the city and they say, 'The mayors will take care of it,'.

It's part of the entertainment fabric of the city, ... And it's youthful and it provides a vibrancy to the city.