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The event, which included partner organizations such as Kentucky African Americans Against Cancer, also had music, vendors, food trucks, a financial literacy program hosted by Republic Bank and ...
Georgia Davis Powers, first African American Kentucky senator, (1923–2016) Moneta Sleet Jr., first African American Pulitzer Prize winner in photography (1926–1996) [9] Allen Allensworth, chaplain (1842–1914) bell hooks, author, academic, essayist, activist, born in Kentucky and came back to her land (1952–2021).
Ruth Booker-Bryant fought hard for causes fighting for social and human rights. Throughout her career as a civil rights activist she was a part of multiple organizations and demonstrations fighting for better housing for Kentucky African Americans. Her first major role was being a VISTA coordinator for the West End Community Council from 1964 ...
They produced and co-hosted a weekly radio program, The Afro-American in Indiana, which ran from 1971 to 1991 on WIAN, the local public schools station, eventually affiliated with National Public Radio; [19] served as editors of a journal, The Afro-American Journal, begun in 1973; [20] produced and co-hosted the television program, Afro ...
Black women in the United States have higher rates of breast cancer before age 50, a higher incidence of harder-to-treat breast cancers, and a 42% higher breast cancer death rate than white women ...
The Commonwealth of Kentucky has an overwhelmingly Anglo-Celtic ancestral origin, according to the US Census Bureau official statistics the largest ancestry is American totalling 20.2%, an ancestral identification used by Old Stock English and Scots-Irish Americans in the Upland South whose families have been in the United States for hundreds of years.
Violence against Black people was a fairly common occurrence, but in Corbin, the goal was total erasure. Barter Theatre challenged me to create a monologue, a dramatic piece performed by one actor.
He was the first African-American to be elected into the Kentucky legislature. [9] He went on to serve six two-year sessions in total from 1936 until 1946. [9] Anderson worked to pass legislation outlawing public hanging in Kentucky and to provide state aid for African Americans seeking higher degrees out-of-state due to Kentucky segregation laws.