The 24th annual Black Women's Conference: "The New Jane Crow; Black Women, Mass Incarceration, and Police Violence"
Featuring Tayna Fogle and Nicole Porter.
Reception to follow.
By Mack McCormick and Whitney Hale
Members of the Affrilachian Poets. Photos by Joseph Rey Au/Courtesy of the Affrilachian Poets.
By Kristie Law
The University of Kentucky Women's Forum announces 14 women have been nominated for the 2018 Sarah Bennett Holmes Award, one of UK's most prestigious awards for women. Women's Forum, who established the award in 1994, is currently celebrating over 26 years of open discussion and creativity while providing leadership development for all women employed at UK.
In the Fall of 2017, Lexington made the national news when debate started around moving the Confederate statues in downtown Lexington. Mayor Gray poignantly highlighted Kentucky’s history as a border state with both Confederate and Union soldiers. This dichotomy and polarization is not simply in the past, but continues to be reflected in our current dialogue in the state and nation. Further, the perceptions of Kentucky do not always reflect the complexity of Kentucky.
By Blair Hoover Conner
Over the past two weeks, millions of people worldwide have gathered around televisions to watch athletes across the world compete for their respective countries in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. For University of Kentucky students Beeson Shin and Wonjin Kim, watching the games is getting a glimpse of home.
Ain’t I a person? : Tout moun sé moun!“ is a mini-symposium that deploys Caribbean/Black studies as a platform to explore how “diasporic” communities in the Americas see others and envision themselves. This symposium considers theories associated with construction of self, personhood, and resistance as ways of conceiving and analyzing the construction of intercultural and diverse communities.
By Gail Hairston, Amy Jones-Timoney, and Kody Kiser
Many people can say they’ve been “around the world,” but only a few of those have actually set foot on all seven continents.
By Gail Hairston
Watch the trailer for "Wide as the Wind" by Edward Stanton above.
A third international book award has been presented to University of Kentucky Professor Emeritus Edward Stanton for his young adult, prehistorical fiction novel “Wide as the Wind” (2016, Open Books Press).
By Kathy Johnson
The Center for Equality and Social Justice at the University of Kentucky is hosting a conversation with Lexington Mayor Jim Gray as part of its Keys to Our Common Future conversation series. He speaks at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 20, in the Boone Center in UK's campus.
