“You’ve come a long way, sister.” In her 1974 autobiography, Alice Allison Dunnigan wrote these words to herself, reminiscing on her journey from a small classroom in Kentucky to covering Capitol...
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Justice Clarence Thomas has made a call for the high court to reconsider the precedent set by the 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan, a decision that makes public...
When I got on the bus in front of my apartment on Monday, I took a seat behind Rosa Parks.Well, the seat reserved for her, anyway. Since then, everyday this week, I have watched Lextran buses throughout...
Can a business argue religious reasons to prevent serving the LGBTQ community? According to a Supreme Court decision on Monday, the precedent was made possible.On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled on Masterpiece...
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...
UK students got an insight on how racism is still an issue and how media shapes public discourse at the last Soup and Substance discussion. Civil rights activist Shaun King spoke to students Thursday...
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...
