How To Support Racial Justice And Diversity This Week In Louisville (7/6)
MONDAY, July 6 Park Yoga for a Cause Big Four Lawn Donation-based | 6-7 p.m. Every month, admission to this weekly, outdoor yoga class will go toward a different nonprofit. First up, is Change Today, Change Tomorrow, which serves Louisville’s Black community. TUESDAY, July 7 Excelerate Workshop: Ally, Advocate, or Accomplice? Zoom Free | 8:20-10:30…
Photos: Before arrests, people came together at Jefferson Square Park
Jefferson Square park protesters got a visit Wednesday night from the GOODProjects tour bus. GOODProjects is a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., that has been traveling the country to promote racial justice. GOODProjects members arrived in a purple and black bus emblazoned with images of victims of police brutality. A statement on the side of…
Does Amy McGrath have any chance against Mitch McConnell?
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell surely smiled as he watched Amy McGrath slip, stumble and nearly fall to state Rep. Charles Booker in the Democratic primary for his seat. The first challenger who could match Mr. Money dollar for dollar had to drain half her campaign fund to fend off an upstart who was the…
How To Support Racial Justice And Diversity This July 4th Weekend In Louisville (7/2)
THURSDAY, July 2 Smart Justice Advocates July Meeting Online Free | 6-7:30 p.m. Interested in becoming a smart justice advocate for the ACLU of Kentucky? Advocates “work on policy solutions to reform Kentucky’s unjust criminal legal system.” They interact with state legislators and present at events. You can easily get started by attending this virtual…
Photo Set: March for racial and environmental justice
As the fight for racial justice continues in Louisville and nationally, different aspects of racial inequality are starting to get attention. Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice hosted an event Tuesday night that highlighted how racial and environmental justice are inseparable. According to the event’s Facebook page, “The diminished health and well being of communities…
City destroys protesters’ property and supplies: Community joins to donate more the next day
The outpouring from the community has been enormous: A call would go out for supplies to help protesters occupying Jefferson Square Park, and people delivered pounds and pounds of ice, water, charcoal, food, medical supplies and whatever else was needed. On Saturday night, a man allegedly shot to death 27-year-old Tyler Gerth, a photographer. The…
‘The Humanity Archive’ breathes life into history: Jermaine Fowler’s podcast is evocative and impactful
The history we learn in school tends to be some combination of boring and bullshit, an extremely narrow, robotic and softened look at nuanced, and often brutal, time frames and situations. But, there are also a lot of great resources and historians out there. For instance, Jermaine Fowler, through his project “The Humanity Archive,” aims…
Thorns and Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd (7/01)
Yes, Machine politics win again, but a star has been born | Thorn + Rose So, Amy McGrath edged out Charles Booker. We think yet another moderate, built-by-the-machine Democrat is going to lose against The Evil One. But we also hope that people who so passionately supported Charles will not stay home in the fall. Because…
Protesters demanded defunding the police, Mayor, City Council said: no
Protesters, mobilized by the law enforcement killings of Black people, have been calling for American cities to defund police departments for weeks. They got their wish, in varying degrees, in Minneapolis, Boston, Los Angeles and New York. They did not in Louisville. Last Thursday, Metro Council approved an operating budget that increased police funding from…
Savage Love: Kinked Gays
Q: I have a question. I’m a gay man in a relationship and we’re both really happy since we met a year ago. We’re “open” in the sense that he wants the option to be intimate with someone else if a connection happens and in turn he said he would be supportive of me being…
Bar Vetti’s fare still delights in its new space
I hate moving. I can’t imagine that anybody would really like the sorting, culling, boxing, shifting, trucking and heavy lifting that comes with a move. Now, imagine moving during a pandemic, with masks and serious social distancing in a play, and you’ll have some idea what it must have been like for bar Vetti last…
Karen Is You
The Karen phenomenon has entered social media almost outdoing Becky With The Good Hair. There are entire Facebook groups dedicated to Karen and T-shirts made about Karen, and daily I read a post or blog about Karen. So who is Karen? Karen is defined by “Slang Dictionary” as a mocking term for an entitled, obnoxious,…
West Of Ninth: People, in their own words…(7/1)
June 1, 2020 Sahura Bast Nefer Ka, Parkland side of 26th Street and Broadway “Right now, I’m overwhelmed with emotions. I know right from wrong. I know how important human life is, but I’m hurt because it’s our lives that are undervalued. Our neighborhoods are disrespected. It’s my brothers, my nephews, my cousins and my…
City to police defunders: FU!
If the budget is a vision for Louisville, then what Mayor Greg Fischer proposed and the Metro Council approved last week shows they are blind, and they think we are too. It is a reminder for Louisville: Watch what Fischer and the council do because you cannot necessarily believe what they say. Like when Fischer…
