Clay Wallace

As concurrent demonstrations took place nationwide, Somerset residents gathered around the Public Square Fountain. Protestors share their reasons for showing up.

WUKY presents: Conversations from the Lexington StoryCorps Booth, brought to you by Quantrell family of dealerships. In this week’s conversation, Juli Eskridge and her husband, Robert Eskridge, reflect on how they met through an online dating site, their first impressions of each other, and their first dates.

In this week's Conversation from the Lexington StoryCorps booth, friends and colleagues Cagle and Sharon discuss their unique, non-linear journeys that brought them to the University of Kentucky as professors of rhetoric and their deep friendship which has helped give them a sense of community.

In this week's Conversation from the Lexington StoryCorps booth, StoryCorps facilitator Joan Cordova Rodriguez speaks with Atticus White, Assistant Director of the Office of LGBTQ Resources at UK, about activism and hope.

In this week's conversation from the Lexington StoryCorps Booth, Fayette County Clerk Susan Lamb and the Executive Director of the Lexington History Museum Mandy Higgins discuss how expanding and preserving records through initiatives like the Digital Access Project help bring under-told stories to life.

 Husbands Terrill Thurman and Glenn Means reflect on how they met, how their instant and powerful connection gave them the courage to come out, and how they’ve continued to love one another through different phases of their lives after over more than a decade together.

Steven Middleton is a documentarian, musician, and media professor at Morehead State University. His most recent film is From The Cowboy’s Boot Heel: The Musical Journey of Rob McNurlin, which won the Green Apple at the 2025 Appalachian Film Festival, Best Music Film at the Utopia Art House Film Festival, and has been selected for the 2025 Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival.

FoodChain is a Lexington nonprofit that, since its founding in 2011, has distributed over a million free meals to community members.

The 2nd Annual Kentucky LGBTQ+ Health and Wellness Fair is Saturday, April 26th from 10-4 at Bluegrass Care Navigators. Offerings will include free and anonymous HIV testing, a name change clinic, and walk-in office hours with the Kentucky Health Justice Network.

From April 25 through May 2, twenty restaurants in the capital city will be serving up their versions of the iconic Louisville open-face sandwich.