When the legal importation of slaves was outlawed in the U.S., owners turned to what was to become uniquely associated to Kentucky–slave breeding. Kentucky was the leading, or second leading, slave breeding state in the nation. A particular trade developed between Lexington and the sporting houses of New Orleans, selling an untold number of female…
Jesse Grider, Barren County-born, U.S. deputy marshal, was famously captured in Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With.” He shielded six-year-old Ruby Bridges from a mob throwing rotten food, yelling racial slurs, and spitting as the first grader entered an integrated New Orleans school. Returning home, Mr. Grider served as chief deputy marshal and…
1492: Pedro Alonso Niño, travels to the New World with Christopher Columbus on his first expedition as a ship’s navigator — a Black man. “The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.” – Ruby Dee It’s back to work with a vengeance for House and Senate members. And though we are facing any number…
Can’t you just see it! Someone’s outside on horseback, riding through Frankfort yelling to beat the band – “THE LEGISLATORS ARE COMING! THE LEGISLATORS ARE COMING”! Yes, it’s true Louise, we’re baaack – but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Really. Now I admit the year did begin on a particularly bitter note. …
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? It may be due to the fact that so many of us grow up in small towns. We like our communities in small bite sizes. We are known for the number of our people who choose to stay close to home, sometimes only rarely leaving their home county. It happens…
Maybe it was the trail of feathers down the hallway, into my office and around my desk…. Or that when Big Blue Nation supporters came to visit me they wore enough Redbird feathers to make several dusters. But when I arrived on the House Floor, one would have thought there wasn’t a clothed Cardinal in…
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about this week. Normally I have pieces of info or partial thoughts or ideas set aside to revisit when I finally do sit down to write. Not so this week. I had not a clue. Not a clue, that is, until…
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? I know its b’ball madness all over again — and there’ll be more than enough wolf tickets bought and sold to make the Girl Scouts turn Irish greenwith envy, so let me all my two cents in up front. So what’s up with the NCAA seedings? Portland, Oregon. Really?! Let’s…
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