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How To Support Racial Justice And Diversity This Weekend (8/14)
SATURDAY, Aug. 15 Free Pop-up Farmers Market Louisville Urban League Free | Noon-2 p.m. (or until supplies run out) The national Until Freedom group is hosting this free pop-up farmer’s market/food giveaway, co-hosted by Next Door Market Grocery, ABN and the Louisville Urban League. Until Freedom is occupying Kentucky for the next month as its…
Photo Set: Black Catholics demand #JusticeForBreonna
Members of the Catholic community showed their support Saturday for the Black Lives Matter movement as protesters continue to demand justice for Breonna Taylor. Organized by the group Black Catholics for Justice, the event had roughly 80 participants from several congregations who gathered in front of the Cathedral of the Assumption on Saturday morning. After…
How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Week In Louisville (8/17)
MONDAY, Aug. 17 Moral Monday Digital Direct Action on McConnell Facebook Live Free | 3:30 p.m. Join the Kentucky and national Poor People’s Campaign in calling on U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell to reconvene the Senate and pass a coronavirus relief package “that includes protection for the U.S. Postal Service.” During this Facebook watch party, the…
With McConnell’s power facing perhaps its biggest test, he needs a coronavirus deal
The last two times Kentuckians have re-elected Mitch McConnell to the U.S. Senate, his best logical argument has been his growing power: As minority leader in 2008, and would-be majority leader in 2014, why should a state with many needs give up such influence? Voters say it again and again. For most of his current…
Fans at the Derby? What are you thinking?!
Six months into the coronavirus pandemic, one would expect our elected leaders to have a better understanding of how to protect us. Unfortunately, they seem more lost today than they were when it started. Even our reassuring Gov. Andy Beshear seems lost — stuck between choosing proven safety protocols and a Trumpian perspective that the…
We can’t turn our backs on downtown
I have always worked downtown and lived in the suburbs. I’ve always loved downtown. About four years ago I decided to move to The Henry Clay building downtown. I wanted to be where the action is — in the middle of business, commerce and entertainment. I wanted to wake up in the morning and go…
Protesters sue city, claim use of excessive force
Attica Scott attended the second night of protests in downtown Louisville in several roles: as a state representative; as a mom whose 19-year-old daughter wanted to go; and as a person wanting justice for Breonna Taylor, whose death ignited the demonstrations. Louisville police shoved and tear gassed Scott, she said, while she and the vast…
The local music scene joins the protests with a weekly event
Lamar Cornett, a drummer in several Louisville bands, was a little dismayed that he wasn’t seeing more members of the local music scene at the downtown protests against police brutality. So, last Friday, he helped organize Out Of The Bars, Into The Streets, a two-mile walk from The Highlands to the ongoing protests at Jefferson…
‘Y’all, we are making them squirm and very uncomfortable’: Protesters keep up pressure
“Keep applying pressure,” Black Lives Matter Louisville tells protesters. “Y’all we are making them squirm and very uncomfortable.” Among the uncomfortable? Mayor Greg Fischer, who put that into words as he explained newly enforced rules to keep protesters off the streets: “We’ve got to have some orderliness to the city so regular citizens can go…
Photo Set: National group rallies for #JusticeForBreonna
Until Freedom, which led the protest on state Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s lawn, held a rally downtown with the sister of Breonna Taylor, Juniyah Palmer, and Michael Brown Sr., whose son Michael Brown Jr. was killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri. Organizers for Until Freedom, which is based in New York, said they will continue…
Thorns and Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd (8/12)
Gov. Andy’s pandemic plan — Consistency much? | Thorn So, Gov. Andy now says bars and restaurants can reopen at 50% capacity and must close at 11 p.m. And we are supposed to keep gatherings to 10 people or fewer. But the Kentucky Derby, Oldham County Fair and the Street Rod Nationals are or were allowed…
Get your sushi on the go from ToGo Sushi
One of the great pleasures of sushi for me is the opportunity to sit down at the sushi bar, admire the artfully arranged rows of beautifully cut seafood and fish and talk with the chef about what’s interesting and good. But I have to be honest: During the pandemic, the idea of joining a few…
Savage Love: Married People
Q: I’m a 38-year-old bi woman who has been sleeping with a married male coworker for the last eight months. We’re a walking cliché: I’m a nurse, he’s a doctor, and one night he ended up spilling a lot of personal information about his marriage to me (sexless, non-romantic, she might be a lesbian) before…
