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Kentucky Kernel

Image from the 1952 Kentuckian Yearbook.

Photoless: Review of Kentuckian yearbooks reveals photos of students in blackface

Jacob Eads September 27, 2019

Editor's note: This version of the article lacks the mentioned images. A version with the photos can be found here.In 1959, UK students were fresh off a National Championship basketball season, they went...

Image from the 1952 Kentuckian Yearbook.

Review of Kentuckian yearbooks reveals photos of students in blackface

Jacob Eads September 27, 2019

Editor's note: Photos farther down in this article may be offensive. A version without the photos can be found here.In 1959, UK students were fresh off a National Championship basketball season, they went...

A construction worker takes a break in what used to be the Kernel newsroom in the basement of the Grehan Journalism Building on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. The building is under construction and is expected to be completed in December 2019. Photo by Bailey Vandiver | Staff 

A look inside the under-construction Grehan Journalism Building

Bailey Vandiver June 25, 2019

On the second floor of the Grehan Journalism Building, Gurney Norman stood in what used to be the yearbook office— including in 1959, when he was editor of The Kentuckian. In the basement, I stood in...

Gurney Norman (left) and Robert Gipe (right) speak about Appalachian storytelling. 

Author Robert Gipe tells real stories from Appalachia

Noah Oldham February 8, 2019

More than coal can be mined for in Appalachia— it’s also a great place to mine for a story.  On Thursday evening, the UK Appalachian Center hosted an interview and reading with author, illustrator...

This book bench, based on the book Bertyl: I Just Want to Belong by Sandra Dobozi, is located in Thoroughbred Park in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Arden Barnes | Staff.

Book bench project celebrates richness of Lexington art

Kellsie Kennedy October 10, 2018

Returning to Lexington after summer vacation, many UK students may have noticed the gradual arrival of 37 benches in the shape of open books.Each book bench began blank, like a newly purchased notebook....

UK alum among new Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame inductees

Lexington Souers January 29, 2016

Thursday night welcomed five new inductees to the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.The event was hosted by the Carnegie Center, as well as the Kentucky Council for the Arts and LexArts. Both the Arts Council...

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