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First Place
Lacy Atkins
San Francisco Chronicle

"100 Black Men Community Charter School"

Second Place
Linda Davidson
The Washington Post

"Adrift After Newtown"

Third Place
Craig F. Walker
The Denver Post

"Cecil and Carl, in Sickness and Health"

Award of Excellence
Barbara Davidson
Los Angeles Times

"A Healing Bond"

Award of Excellence
Sebastian CastaƱeda Vita
El Comercio

"Refuge of the Soul"

Third Place
Craig F. Walker
The Denver Post


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"Cecil and carl, in sickness and in health"

Cecil and Carl met in a Denver bar 44 years ago. When Carl entered a nursing home with dementia, Cecil became his guardian, making the partners ineligible for a Colorado civil union, legalized in 2013.

Cecil Bethea, 83, shaves his partner, Carl Shepherd, 72, during one of his many visits to The Spearly Center, where Carl lives, in Denver, CO. "As I remember in the old time wedding vows, there was a phrase in there, 'in sickness and in health,'" Cecil says. "Well this is certainly sickness. In December 2011, Carl had a stroke. He went to the hospital, then on to the nursing home. Carl has been diagnosed with dementia and since the stroke has not returned to the two-story home the pair had shared in northwest Denver since 1974.

 

 

 

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