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Please remember to vote in the special election today if you live in Senate District 19! Polls close at 6pm.

Albert Meyzeek was a civil rights activist, educator and administrator who fought for equality in education. Meyzeek founded Western Library in 1905 after Black students were refused admittance to a local whites-only library. #KYBlackHistory

Rev. ⁦⁦Corrie Shull⁩ and I took our daughters on a field trip to the swearing in of Congressman ⁦Morgan McGarvey⁩. We wanted them to get a good civics education. ⁦⁦Dr. Christine Cosby⁩

Property owners who are 65+ can receive the Homestead Exemption on their primary residence. If you are eligible, the exemption amount is subtracted from your property’s assessed value, reducing your property tax liability. For more info visit ow.ly/N1Ml50N96KF #LULHousing

I’m very proud of Burnett Ave.’s collaboration with Rabbi Freed (Ben Freed (he/him/Rabbi)), the Keneseth Israel Congregation and the Louisville Orchestra! It has been refreshing!

Celebrating Elmer Lucille Allen, who in 1966 became the first Black chemist at Brown-Forman, one of the largest in the spirit distillers.

During the height of lynching n 1892, the white press blamed it on black criminality. A dying Frederick Douglas, a young W. E. B. Du Bois and a opportunist Booker T. Washington believed the white press. But a black woman pushed back against the narrative. Her name is Ida B. Wells

Charnelle Pinkney Barlow’s new picture book (her first as both illustrator and author) imagines the childhood of the singer and guitar hero Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Chris Raschka has our review. nyti.ms/3JrTFt2

I hope you’ll join me April 5-16 for “Party People'' at Actors Theatre of Louisville. This revolutionary musical by the award-winning UNIVERSES, tells the story of the Black Panther Party and Young Lords Organization based on interviews with party members.

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Summer is around the corner and we are now accepting registrations for our Summer 2023 "Literacy &" Camps. Summer camp themes will include fitness, photography, fencing, DJ'ing, karate and more! Register online at jcps.me/summerlearning.

Proverbs 10:1 Parenting is 5 stages: 1. 1-11 kids ROMANTICIZE u 2. 12-17 they DEMONIZE u 3. 18-24 they UTILIZE u (they need your money) 4. 25-40 they HUMANIZE u (they r now parents, they learn it’s not easy) 5. 40 and up they IDOLIZE u. (It’s when u pass they realize your value.)

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The JCPS Diversity, Equity, and Poverty Department and JCPS Athletics will host a clinic and informational event for female student-athletes and coaches of female sports teams. Learn more in the flyer below.

Today, let us remember Martin Luther King as he TRULY was: A Black radical anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, revolutionary Christian internationalist who was deemed an enemy of the State and assassinated for his radical work. Just about everything else is a lie.

JCPS busing decision reignited discussions about educational equity for future generations courier-journal.com/story/opinion/…

Bloomberg Philanthropies is announcing a $600 million gift to the endowments of four historically Black medical schools. $175M each will go to Howard University, Meharry Medical College, and Morehouse Medicine. Charles Drew University will receive $75M. apnews.com/article/mike-b…

Happy First Day of School, JCPS!!! Have a great year!!

What did A. Philip Randolph, WEB DuBois, Ella Baker, Stokley Carmichael, The Founders of the NAACP, Cornel West, James Farmer Sr, Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King Jr. have in common? All of them are democratic socialists.

Mary McLeod Bethune finally gets her due in new biography A recently published book by scholar Noliwe Rooks burnishes the legacy of the trailblazing educator and activist, all while correcting misconceptions about her life and work theemancipator.org/2024/08/04/top…