DENVER — Black History in Colorado dates back more than 200 years. Many remember Barney Ford, a black man born into slavery in Virginia who eventually found freedom in Colorado, making way for others.

What made Barney, the purple dinosaur and nineties kids’-TV sensation, so infuriatingly loathsome? Was it his doofy voice and inane giggle, coming at you like a low-watt Pillsbury Doughboy? His ...

Before it was a museum, the Barney Ford Home had undergone additions to the house and was purchased by the Theobalds in 1946. After his mother passed, son Robin Theobald — who lived in the home until ...