lexington, kentucky
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In a Small Town In Mississippi, Black Folks Are Being Arrested For This Reason, According to Feds
The 50-page report revealed the Lexington Police Department arrested nearly one fourth of its city’s entire population in the past two years.
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The Blue Grass Airport TSA Pulled Me Aside to Inspect and Massage My Hair and Now I Have Questions!
I’m writing this from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Ky., waiting on a flight to Philadelphia that will take me back home to Pittsburgh. I came to Kentucky to visit the bell hooks Institute at Berea College for an event with bell hooks yesterday that I’m totally, definitely going to tell you all about soon.…
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Lexington, Ky., Mayor Says Confederate Statues Are Coming Down After Charlottesville, Va., Tragedy
It usually takes a tragedy for there to be any substantive change around race in this country, and perhaps the death of Heather Heyer is the latest in that vein. On Saturday the mayor of Lexington, Ky., said that he is going to remove two Confederate monuments from his city’s former courthouse in light of…
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Trump Supporter Targets Non-Republicans in Machete Attack
In a ranking of the scariest phrases in the English language, coming in somewhere between the terms “states’ rights” and “The 45th president of the United States tweeted … ” are the words “disgruntled white male.” On Friday, a former student at a university in Lexington, Ky., carried a machete and a bag of knives…