Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame

WUKY is participating in this year’s Public Media Day of Action on Thursday November 10th. It’s a movement led by Public Media For All; a diverse coalition of public media workers of color, whose purpose is to raise awareness of the negative effects of a lack of diversity, equity and inclusion in public media while sharing solutions for individuals and organizations. To provide a historical perspective of the media landscape, Doug Boyd from the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries is here with a segment of Saving Stories looking at how Lexington's daily mainstream newspapers handled coverage of African American communities. In 2004 the editor of the Lexington Herald Leader apologized for the newspaper's failures in covering the 1960's Civil Rights Movement.

A long-time educator who was credited with helping integrate downtown Lexington businesses in the early 1960’s has died. Former local NAACP president…

The Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame inducted the class of 2014 this week in Bowling Green.The ceremony was held Thursday at the Western Kentucky…