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Have we taken our eyes off the prize? This is the question fueling the theme for this year’s annual MLK Day observance. The University of Kentucky, along with the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and other community sponsors, will kick off this year’s MLK Day celebration at 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 15 with the annual holiday Freedom March, beginning at Central Bank Center in downtown Lexington. Directly following the march, the Commemorative Program will be held at 2 p.m. at Central Bank Center.

Pamela Wimberly, Menlo-Atherton High School's athletic director and longtime coach and P.E. teacher who helped shape its athletic program, is retiring after a 55-year career at the Atherton school.

The role of the WUKY DEIB CAB is to develop effective DEIB outreach strategies for WUKY.

Across the United States, communities are celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month throughout May. Like all heritage months, this is an opportunity to learn more about AAPI culture and celebrate the invaluable contributions of these communities. It is also an important opportunity to recall the history of Asians and Pacific Islanders in America. And we do that best through storytelling. 

Monday marks five years since Lexington removed a pair of Confederate statues from downtown, leading to a transformation of a former slave-trading market site, but the controversy now appears more like a prelude than a final chapter.