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August 23, 2022
A former Louisville police detective who helped falsify the warrant that led to the deadly police raid at Breonna Taylor's apartment has...
August 4, 2022
The federal government filed civil rights charges Thursday against four Louisville police officers over the drug raid that led to…
Emmett Till, theGrio
August 2, 2022
The now-88-year-old woman who set off the series of events that led to the murder of 14-year-old Till is reportedly…
July 20, 2022
The Louisville Courier-Journal launched a four-week anti-racism challenge as a call to action in the ongoing fight against bigotry and…
July 17, 2022
Writer and food and spirits aficionado Ray Marcano is up on his bourbon game—and has recommendations to put you on,…
July 16, 2022
Democratic challenger Charles Booker is a progressive who promotes such social programs as Medicare for All and a basic universal…
July 11, 2022
The Kentucky Supreme Court will hear arguments to return a statue of Confederate soldier John B. Castleman to its initial…
Judge Wooden gavel on the table of judge with american flag and black chair
July 10, 2022
A Kentucky man has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit claiming a state prison’s rules about Black hairstyles are unconstitutional.
theGRIO.com
July 9, 2022
A white Kentucky man faces up to five years in prison after infiltrating a fifth grade Zoom class and using…
June 9, 2022
Black jockeys won 15 of 28 Kentucky Derbys. But then Jim Crow, segregation and more Latino hires changed the landscape.
May 31, 2022
The Terraces at Forest Springs reportedly discouraged Black renters with Section 8 while encouraging white applicants with the vouchers.
May 31, 2022
A federal jury found John F. Johnson, who goes by “Grandmaster Jay,” guilty of multiple charges linked to protests two…
Tyler Harden, theGrio.com
May 20, 2022
The ruling said the law's 15-week ban on abortions would remain blocked until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a…
Charles Booker, Cheri Beasley
May 17, 2022
Senate candidates Cheri Beasley and Charles Booker became the first African American nominees for their respective states.
Cheri Beasley, theGrio
May 16, 2022
Democrat Cheri Beasley and Republican Kathy Barnette wlll be the first black people to hold seats if victorious in general…
May 12, 2022
Republican Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron filed paperwork Wednesday to enter the state's 2023 governor’s race.
May 5, 2022
It took trips over state lines, navigating roads and laws, for a South Dakota mother of two to get abortion…
Quintez Brown thegrio.com
May 5, 2022
Quintez Brown, accused of shooting at a candidate for mayor of Louisville, will remain in federal custody until his trial, a judge…
April 8, 2022
A new billboard in Owensboro, Kentucky — a town with only 4,000 Black residents out of 60,000 — calls for…
April 8, 2022
Quintez Brown's lawyer is calling on the young activist's supporters to protest outside the federal courthouse at 1 p.m. today.