Photo set: Local Cubans rally to support business upset with protesters demands
On Sunday, more than 30 members of Louisville’s Cuban community held a NuLu rally in support of Fernando Martinez, a local restaurant group owner embroiled in a conflict with Black Lives Matter supporters. Last Wednesday in a Facebook post, Martinez denounced “mafia”-like tactics from Black Lives Matter Louisville organizers, who issued a list of demands…
How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Week In Louisville (8/3)
MONDAY, Aug. 3 Demand Safe Schools National Day of Resistance VanHoose Education Center Free | 3 p.m. Black Lives Matter Louisville’s Education Team is joining other communities across the country in demanding a safe and equitable reopening of schools. Its members are encouraging educators, parents, students and community members to show up to the VanHoose…
How To Support Racial Justice And Diversity This Weekend (7/31)
FRIDAY, July 31 Harriet’s Bail Out Wherever you are able Donation-based | All day In honor of the Louisville Community Bail Fund’s third year anniversary and Harriet Tubman, Black Lives Matter Louisville is on a mission to bail out Black femmes from jail. Join their efforts by donating to the bail fund or volunteering for…
Cosby, Kelly, and Racial Injustice in Sexual Assault Cases
The Tarnished Media Maven Bill Cosby’s career began in the 1960s and spanned six decades through stand-up comedy, television, film and music. With a career covering so many areas through such a large duration of time, your age will indicate which Cosby you’re most familiar with. In her 60s at the time of this writing,…
My experience with COVID-19: It started with a small cough
On Saturday, July 4, I cycled 15 miles with a large group. It was the longest ride I’d been on all season. I rode with people I had not seen in weeks, others in years and some I knew from social media but met in person that day for the first time. We were not…
The ‘Save Our Stages Act’ could keep local music venues alive
The pandemic has the potential to be a nuclear bomb to the concert industry, leading to the closure of hundreds of small and mid-sized venues across the country, but last week there was a reason for optimism when the Save Our Stages Act was introduced to the U.S. Senate. The bipartisan bill, if passed, would…
BurgerIM brings beef, lamb, falafel burgers and more
If you’ve been wondering about the odd name of that new gourmet-style hamburger joint in the Vogue Center, wonder no longer: The Hebrew plural ending “-im” on the English word “Burger,” yields “BurgerIM,” a crafty way to make a common word a trademark. We brought home a bunch of burgerim, er, burgers, the other day…
For grief-stricken West Louisville, hope may look like a grocery store
Cassia Herron fumed as she watched an armored SWAT vehicle idle in the parking lot across from David McAtee’s barbecue stand in Louisville. It had only been four days since the National Guard had fatally shot McAtee while enforcing a curfew during protests sparked in part by the March killing of another Black Louisville resident,…
After more than 60 days of protest, a hunger strike
[Update: On Aug. 9 after 20 days of not eating, two of the hunger strikers, Amira Bryant and Vincent Gonzalez announced that they had stopped their fast “in celebration of Black August.” The group said on Facebook, “Tabin Ibershoff and Ari Maybe will continue in honor of their sacrifice and to allow Vince and Amira…
Savage Love: Friends in deed
Q: I’m a 20-something, more-or-less lesbian in an East Coast city. I’m primarily into women, and I’m only interested in relationships with women, but I’m sometimes attracted to men and have enjoyed sex with men in the past. For various reasons, I decided a few years ago not to pursue physical stuff with men anymore,…
Thorns and Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd (7/29)
We all should share the pain | Thorn Gov. Andy has shut bars and cut restaurant dining-in capacity to 25% as a reaction to a coronavirus case spike. But the Kentucky State Fair, Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Kingdom continue on. Fair? As Seviche owner and chef Anthony Lamas told The Courier Journal: “It’s easy to…
Where are the mayor’s allies?
It’s difficult to imagine a time in his last two years as mayor when Greg Fischer will have the political power to bring about the change the community wants and needs. To make change, you need support. To be a leader you need followers. But it is beginning to look like Fischer is the mayor…
