March is Women’s History Month, which allows us to reflect on all of the women who have had a great impact on the world. Though this list can vary from person to person, the Kernel opinions staff will...
On Feb. 11, I had the honor of going to see my first performance at the Lyric Theatre here in Lexington. Long known as a cultural hub since the 1950s, the Lyric Theatre has been a home for African American...
It's 9 a.m. on a dewy October Saturday, and volunteers from the Wildcat Wranglers, student ambassadors for the Agriculture and Equine programs, are planting flowers and cleaning headstones for people they'll...
Reminders of pain and suffering. A symbol of oppression. Feeling like an unwanted, second-class student. Tired of thinking that their university doesn’t care about them. Those are the concerns African-American...
Instances of police brutality are less publicized recently, but they continue to happen regularly. A large amount of the blame is placed on language and how it is used to describe victims of police brutality....
The past few days have been a whirlwind of grief.Last week, a Louisville shooting left two dead at a Kroger and was called a hate crime. The shooter, now somewhat famously, said, “whites don’t kill...
Exactly 101 years ago on August 28, 1917, 10 women suffragists were arrested for picketing outside the White House. Their crime? Supporting the “Anthony” amendment, which, if adopted by Congress, would...
My social media newsfeeds are full of praises of the NFL for their recent announcement that players will now be required to stand or stay in the locker room during the National Anthem. ESPN announced...
I read Chanel Friday’s opinion piece on the Lexington Herald-Leader website, “Black UK students should get active on campus,” and to be honest, I’m confused. When did I or any of this school’s...
It was Dec. 5, 1967. UK played Illinois State, and Memorial Coliseum shook with racial slurs.The event bothered Theodore Berry, then one of the few African-American students on campus, so much that he...
[email protected] by one, representatives of each of UK’s African-American sororities and fraternities took the stage at the National Pan-Hellenic Council’s third annual “Stepping Through the...
By Lexington [email protected]’s first African-American graduate student arrived in 1949, but African-American undergraduate students were not allowed until 1954. Elaine Wilson, UK’s first...
