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The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

Kentucky Kernel

The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

Kentucky Kernel

Terry Allen, organizer of the march, marches in front of the old Lexington courthouse during the Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative march on Monday, January 15, 2018. In October 2017, two confederate statues were removed from the old courthouse grounds after Lexingtons long debate about their location. Photo by Rick Childress | Staff

MLK Freedom March to take over Lexington streets on Monday

Emily Laytham January 16, 2019

Next Monday, UK students will be out of class and marchers will be out on the streets to honor Martin Luther King Jr.Martin Luther King Day, always observed on the third Monday of January, is celebrated...

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We’re not desensitized to 9/11; we’re desensitized to freedoms lost

September 10, 2018

Sept. 11, 2001. A date that lives in infamy.Almost every American who was alive at that time knows where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news of terrorists hijacking airplanes and...

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On this Fourth of July, we must remember why we stand

Hayden Hooper July 4, 2018

As I walked into church last Sunday, seeing a men’s choir of 40 or more members was a spectacle, but it got better.My church in Louisville celebrated the fourth of July by having every branch of the...

Students write what they think freedom means at the Freedom Is... event hosted by the Bias Incident Report Service outside Whitehall on Thursday, April 5, 2018. Photo by Cody Ryan.

What does freedom mean? UK students answer with campus art project

Cody Ryan April 7, 2018

Members of the UK community expressed their idea of the meaning of freedom Thursday next to Whitehall.As a part of Bias Incident Support Services' first annual Facing Change Week, UK students and faculty...

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