Building the movement: What has been done, what activists say is left to do
[Ed. note: After this story was published, a grand jury indicted Brett Hankison on Wednesday on three counts of wanton endangerment for allegedly endangering Breonna Taylor’s neighbors with reckless gunfire. No charges were brought for two other officers who fired their guns when Taylor was killed.] In anticipation of whether protesters will get what they have…
Photo Set: #JusticeForBreonna, Protesters mass outside Cameron’s office
As Louisville and nation await word from state Attorney General Daniel Cameron on whether police responsible for Breonna Taylor’s death will be charged, protesters kept up pressure Friday. Protesters in the “Arrest The Cops” rally met outside of his office on Whittington Parkway, led by the family of Breonna Taylor and the New York-based social…
Photo Set: #NotoriousRBG — Protesters take demands to McConnell’s house
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell has vowed to fill the seat of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, despite her deathbed wish that he wait until after the election. On Saturday, dozens of protesters lined up outside of his house on Dundee Road with signs and chants. “Mitch McConnell! Your constituents have grievances!”…
Can Daniel Cameron Take a Hint?
Ben Crump gave Daniel Cameron a gift last Tuesday. Time will tell whether Cameron is smart enough or brave enough to take it. During the press conference announcing the city of Louisville’s $12 million settlement with the family of Breonna Taylor, Crump, the Taylor family’s lawyer, turned from discussion of the deal and the package…
How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Week In Louisville (9/21)
MONDAY, Sept. 21 Moral Monday March: Car Caravan Protest at McConnell Offices Sixth Street and Broadway/Online Free | 3 p.m. As you probably know, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, and Senate Majority Leader (and dishonorable Kentuckian) Mitch McConnell has vowed to fill her seat, even though he didn’t let former President…
How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity And Activism This Weekend In Louisville (9/18)
FRIDAY, Sept. 18 Old School Fridays The Palm Room No cover | 5 p.m.-close Joe’s Palm Room, the famous Russell jazz club, has been reopened and reinvented by Black business owner Marcus Withers. Check it out at the Palm Room’s new, weekly event, Old School Fridays, featuring The Palm Room House Band and happy hour…
Savage Love: Premies
Q: I’m a straight man who’s been dating a woman for not quite four months. In the beginning, things were light. But things started to get heavy quickly. Two weeks in, she revealed her very serious abandonment issues and then began asking me whether I really loved her and demanding reassurance that I wasn’t going anywhere…
Five artists: How the protests influence their art
Most of the artists we spoke to are not new to infusing their work with elements of social justice. As a nonbinary, Black, queer person, Kenyatta Bosman’s art focused on the queer Black experience well before Louisville’s daily Justice for Breonna protests. And, “artist + organizer” Brianna Harlan already specialized in “socially engaged” art and…
Of the moment: Local musicians write about equality and change
In the second verse of Tez of 2Deep’s song “BLM,” he delivers a sharp, evocative and gut-wrenching statement. He asks his listeners to imagine him as George Floyd, his wife as Breonna Taylor, his son as Tamir Rice and his daughter as Korryn Gaines. He wants you to visualize him and his family as the…
When you want to drink bourbon: From appetizers to entrees to dessert
National Bourbon Heritage Month is upon us, which presents a perfect opportunity to highlight the great variety of flavors in bourbons. Sure, they almost all exhibit the basic profile of caramel or vanilla or some combination thereof that sets bourbon apart from other whiskey styles. But there are many embellishments that result in bourbons being…
Queen of Sheba, an Ethiopian takeout feast
If you like to eat Ethiopian food the traditional way, you’ll eat with your hands, tearing off pieces of tangy, tan injera flatbread and using it to grab morsels from the common plate while your friends are doing the same. Unfortunately, the pandemic has put an end to that practice at Queen of Sheba restaurant…
After domestic violence murder, city reviews its response: Should other cities, too?
This article is from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. In late January, Louisville Metro Police Department officers went to a house with blue steps in the Parkland neighborhood looking for a woman named Amanda Berry. Family members had reported her missing; neighbors would later say they’d heard her boyfriend beating her and yelling at…
Thorns and Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd (9/16)
Still want justice for Breonna | Thorn The city of Louisville settles with Breonna Taylor’s family for $12 million and enacts policing reforms but won’t fire all the cops who rained down bullets on this unarmed woman in her home? We hope the payout is not meant to soften any decision on whether the officers are…
Yvette Gentry, the interim police chief we need
Yvette Gentry might call herself “chief for a while,” but she could be the police chief who saves the city. That might sound hyperbolic, but consider the issues that face the city and what it will take to repair the community’s distrust of police and the unequal justice Black residents face. Mayor Greg Fischer is…
Breonna Taylor is a classic ‘Girlfriend’ case straight out of the police playbook
What many people don’t realize is that the Breonna Taylor case is straight out of the police playbook. It’s so common that colleagues and I call these cases, “The Girlfriend.” Here’s how it works: the police conduct a drug trafficking investigation. They identify a suspect, get some surveillance video, collect some wiretaps that may or…
West of Ninth: People, in their own words…
Sept. 9, 2020 Juan, Algonquin “I was born and raised in the West, on 41st and Broadway. Shit, my experience here has been lovely, painful and grateful. It showed me a lot. The hood will either make you or break you. It’s all about what you get out of it. Growing up down here, I…
