By Amy Jones-Timoney and Kody Kiser
After deployments that took him from North Carolina to Afghanistan to Alaska, Andrew Fadley, a University of Kentucky student veteran, discovered he had a passion for philosophy.
Since he started his degree at UK before joining the United States Army, the native of Marquette, Michigan, decided to return to Kentucky to finish what he started.
The 24th annual Black Women's Conference: "The New Jane Crow; Black Women, Mass Incarceration, and Police Violence"
Events in the Alumni Gallery:
8:30-9:45am: Breakfast
10:00-11:30am: Workshop with Enchanta Jackson
11:30-12:45pm: Lunch
Events in Young Library Auditorium:
1:00-2:30pm: Rep. Attica Scott
3:00-4:30pm: Andrea Ritchie
4:30-5:00pm: Book signing and sale
The 24th annual Black Women's Conference: "The New Jane Crow; Black Women, Mass Incarceration, and Police Violence"
Featuring Tayna Fogle and Nicole Porter.
Reception to follow.
By Mack McCormick and Whitney Hale
Members of the Affrilachian Poets. Photos by Joseph Rey Au/Courtesy of the Affrilachian Poets.
By Kristie Law
The University of Kentucky Women's Forum announces 14 women have been nominated for the 2018 Sarah Bennett Holmes Award, one of UK's most prestigious awards for women. Women's Forum, who established the award in 1994, is currently celebrating over 26 years of open discussion and creativity while providing leadership development for all women employed at UK.
In the Fall of 2017, Lexington made the national news when debate started around moving the Confederate statues in downtown Lexington. Mayor Gray poignantly highlighted Kentucky’s history as a border state with both Confederate and Union soldiers. This dichotomy and polarization is not simply in the past, but continues to be reflected in our current dialogue in the state and nation. Further, the perceptions of Kentucky do not always reflect the complexity of Kentucky.
By Blair Hoover Conner
Over the past two weeks, millions of people worldwide have gathered around televisions to watch athletes across the world compete for their respective countries in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. For University of Kentucky students Beeson Shin and Wonjin Kim, watching the games is getting a glimpse of home.
Ain’t I a person? : Tout moun sé moun!“ is a mini-symposium that deploys Caribbean/Black studies as a platform to explore how “diasporic” communities in the Americas see others and envision themselves. This symposium considers theories associated with construction of self, personhood, and resistance as ways of conceiving and analyzing the construction of intercultural and diverse communities.
By Gail Hairston, Amy Jones-Timoney, and Kody Kiser
Many people can say they’ve been “around the world,” but only a few of those have actually set foot on all seven continents.
