The presentation, titled “The Blues on Black Mountain: Stories from The Harlan Renaissance,” will take place 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17, in the William T. Young Library’s UK Athletics Auditorium.
Fayette County will be the first county in Kentucky to digitize its historical property records dating back to the late 1700s. The community partnership includes University of Kentucky’s Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies, the Fayette County Clerk, the Lexington Black Prosperity Initiative, Blue Grass Community Foundation and its Knight Foundation Donor Advised Charitable Fund.
“Breaking Barriers in Bourbon: Digital Media, Diversity, and the Black Bourbon Society” will take place 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, in the Singletary Center Recital Hall. The event is part of UK Libraries’ Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History’s “Women in Bourbon Oral History Project.”
The history of racial violence in Kentucky and how it connects to racial injustices today… that’s the basis of a talk at the University of Kentucky on Thursday. It’s sponsored by a relatively new program that highlights UK’s growing body of research into Black history.