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A police officer tells Sajida Megariaf to leave a Turning Point even on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, at University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Najma Amarkhail

Turning Point guest speaker event met with protest

Lilly Keith, Staff Reporter March 9, 2024

  The public event, a “conversation about Israel” hosted by student organization Turning Point, welcomed guest speaker Ian Haworth, members and student protestors, to discuss the Israel-Palestine...

Jaida Hampton, a 2020 UK graduate, was a political science major and active in summer protests over the killing of Breonna Taylor.

Student activists at UK weigh in on racial justice

Akhira Umar December 31, 2020

Black students have only been present, much less welcomed, for less than half of the University of Kentucky’s 155-year history. Seventy-one years ago, Lyman T. Johnson won a lawsuit that helped integrate...

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UK reviewing student videos regarding Breonna Taylor protests

Natalie Parks June 2, 2020

Editor's note: This story contains offensive language. Obscenities have been edited in writing, but are audible in the embedded media.After videos of an incoming student discussing Breonna Taylor’s death...

Student activists chant during the counter protest to national anti-abortion group, Created Equal's demonstration outside Whitehall Classroom building on Thursday, October 19, 2017 in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Arden Barnes | Staff

Protesters, counter-protesters square off in middle of campus over abortion

Rick Childress October 19, 2017

A chaotic scene unfolded in front of Whitehall on Thursday afternoon. Chanting demonstrators, campus security and hundreds of curious students packed onto the lawn between Whitehall and the Engineering...

White supremacists attempt to recruit on college campuses

Madison Rexroat August 15, 2017

These fascist posters are appearing at US universities. This is chilling considered alongside the prof. watchlist. Please spread the word. pic.twitter.com/hBKjFmpdvs— Christopher Stroop (@C_Stroop) November...

Milo Yiannopoulos protected, not censored

Blake Blevins February 13, 2017

What occurred between Milo Yiannopoulos and the campus of the University of California, Berkeley was a very complicated situation, but it was not censorship.After being invited by UC Berkeley’s College...

Women’s march protests peacefully

Saadia Akhtar January 22, 2017

It all started with a Facebook post from a lawyer in Hawaii. Teresa Shook created an event for a march on Washington, D.C. around the inauguration.By the next day, it had reached over 10,000 people. This...

Women, men and children in major cities around the U.S. marched in support of women’s rights on Saturday, January 21, 2017. Hundreds of thousands participated in the March on Washington alone, which was proceeded by star-studded speeches and musical performances. 

Almost a million march on Washington D.C.

Marjorie Kirk January 22, 2017

As night fell on the day of rage that began inauguration weekend, the morning brought a new hope that expanded from the National Mall and the White House, to Central Park in New York City and the Embarcadero...

Inauguration dampened by rain, protests

Marjorie Kirk January 22, 2017

Scores of Americans made the pilgrimage to the nation’s capital for Inauguration weekend, but for vastly different reasons. 200 people were arrested in the political convergence of President Donald...

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Relieve post-election emotional tension

Olivia Jones November 13, 2016

A giant eggshell has covered the streets and sidewalks as tension is rising among people of all ages, race and genders after the election results Wednesday. Professors don’t know whether to make the...

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