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Kentucky Kernel

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Kentucky Kernel

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Stop stereotyping Appalachian accents

Peyton Keyes, Reporter January 21, 2024

In the gift shop of some museum in Washington, D.C. that couldn’t pique the interest of my 6th-grade brain, I started a conversation with another shopper. She seemed sweet — a local who wanted to...

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We need to stop apologizing for being women

Lauren Suchanek November 11, 2019

If you search “top books read in high school” on Google and peruse through the results, there is one common theme: almost every single one of them features a male protagonist. Try to name all of the...

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Diversity Scholars host Human Library

Alex Brinkhorst April 19, 2017

The UK Libraries Undergraduate Diversity Scholars organized a new kind of library in the William T. Young Library here on campus.The Human Library is a project in which volunteers from different minority...

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Progress is personal

The Southeastern region of the U.S. is often stereotyped as being bigoted and intolerant toward lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender Americans, but Lance Poston said his experience tells a different...

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