How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Week In Louisville (8/31)
MONDAY, August 31 Virtual WorldFest Online Free | All day While there will be no in-person celebration for this year’s WorldFest, the annual event will happen this year online. There will be music, food demonstrations, crafts and more with representations from more than 20 nations starting today and lasting through Friday. WorldFest is one of…
I’ve got corona questions: An honest-to-god epidemiologist tells us what to expect
I have questions about the pandemic. I bet you do, too. You might also think that you can get those answers with a simple Google search. Alas, we cannot. Blame it on propaganda, sophisticated campaigns of misinformation, the pace of the disease itself or old-fashioned American ignorance, but internet oracles aren’t going to give us…
How To Support Racial Justice And Diversity This Weekend (8/28)
FRIDAY, Aug. 28 Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice Various Locations $40 | Any time Louisville restaurants are selling $40 boxes of sweets this weekend, with money going to an emergency relief fund from the Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice Coalition for Black-owned restaurants in the South. If you’re not able to snag an Oaxacan Pastry…
Arts Bureau Edge journalists had Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts covered as it went virtual
Covering Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts had been a goal since Arts Bureau Edge began working in 2018 with young people to help them step into the role of arts journalists coving the Louisville region. Even in a normal year, that goal seemed far off, given the logistics and the expenses it would have…
Photo Set: ‘Good Trouble Tuesday’ was peaceful, impactful
No “thugs” came in from out of state to terrorize the city. No freeways were blocked. No looting happened. Despite the rumors and scaremongering passed around online, there was only “good trouble” at Tuesday’s protest to demand justice for Breonna Taylor. The protest was organized by the New York-based social justice group Until Freedom, which…
Photo Set: Bre-B-Q centers on Black joy in push for racial justice
Ahead of a demonstration in Louisville on Tuesday, a barbecue and concert event called Bre-B-Q was held Sunday in Shawnee Park to honor Breonna Taylor and continue the battle for racial justice. The event was held on the second day of BreonnaCon, a “community convention” organized by the New York-based social justice group Until Freedom…
One of the ‘Black Six’: people don’t change because you ask
The year when Manfred Reid Sr. was born, 1936, was the same year that the last Black man was publicly hanged by the justice system in the United States — and it happened in his home state of Kentucky. “So, my socialization as a child from my parents was being aware of the risk of…
Tactics, repression the same today: The 1970 prosecution of Louisville’s Black Six
On May 8, 1968, a white Louisville police officer, Michael Clifford, pulled over Black schoolteacher Charles Thomas, who was friends with Manfred Reid, a West End real estate broker. Seeing his friend harassed, Reid confronted the police, who then beat and arrested both men. Clifford was suspended for brutality in the arrest, but on May…
Louisville Babylon returns with more Misfits covers
Even though he’s in grad school in another state, John King decided to release a new version of Louisville Babylon, a once-every-13-years compilation of local artists covering songs by the Misfits. While he’s crunched on time, King said he knows that the coronavirus has ripped away a lot of opportunities for musicians, so he figured…
El Mundo Highlands has opened
It takes a certain bold spirit and lack of risk aversion to open a new restaurant during a pandemic when, at best, restaurants face an extraordinary burden of regulation for our health and safety. That didn’t slow down the folks at El Mundo, though. Not only did they open their second restaurant — El Mundo…
Survey shows where LMPD and community diverge and agree on new police chief
The city surveyed and spoke with more than 10,000 people to create a profile of what Louisville community members and police employees want in a new police chief. It was done, ostensibly, to help Louisville hire a chief to replace Chief Steve Conrad, who was fired in the midst of protests over the death of…
Jecorey Arthur on racial justice and downtown: ‘You can’t protect the city if you don’t progress the city’
The Louisville Forum’s meeting this month engaged elected and business leaders on the question: Can the push for racial justice and a vibrant downtown coexist? The following is an excerpt from Metro Councilman-elect Jecorey Arthur’s remarks. Arthur, who is the youngest person ever elected to the council and a teacher and musician, will represent District…
Elders take racial justice demands to AG’s lawn
Mary Holden, 68, was arrested and charged with criminal trespass for sitting on the lawn of state Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s house to demand justice for Breonna Taylor. Altogether, 14 elders staged a protest on his law, some of the seven who remained on the lawn were charged with criminal trespass. Below is what Holden…
Reforming police to curb shootings
This summer’s spike of gun violence is pushing Louisville toward a record year of deadly shootings. Over 100 people have been killed by a gun in 2020, closing in on the city’s record of 117 in 2016, and we’ve still got four months to go. As though the coronavirus and racial injustice crises aren’t enough…
Thorns and Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd (8/26)
The more you know | Rose + Thorn The Courier Journal published, deleted and then republished a story it said was based on an internal police report and other reporting about the Breonna Taylor case. The first story led with how she had deeper ties to the drug dealer targeted by the police. The new…
Savage Love: Tall Order
Q: I’m a cis male in my late twenties. I’ve recently become consumed by a specific fantasy I fear is unattainable, a fear that has been made worse by several failed attempts to research it. A little background: except for a couple dates and make-out sessions with other men, my sex life has always been…
