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Black History Month: Barnes reflects on work with club, funeral home

It’s widely known that February is designated as Black History Month. But once upon a time, Somerset had its own Black History Club.

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Ay, There's the Rub (and Sauce): Baney's Bangin' BBQ is a sweet success story for Jones

Greg Jones, creator of Baney’s Bangin’ BBQ sauce, has heard it before.

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Black History Month: Perkins reflects on segregated Virginia balcony

There was a time, admits John L. Perkins — known to many in the community as “Johnny B.” — when he would have rather seen the Virginia remain a thing

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The story of the Virginia is still being written

The old Virginia Cinema was known for the stories that played out on its big screen. But there have always been other stories within its walls — stories made in

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Community should be proud to host Juneteenth Festival

It’s been over 150 years since slavery was abolished in the United States. Here in Somerset, we celebrated — truly, joyfully celebrated — that transformative milestone for the first time

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Lake Cumberland Diversity Council works to bring community together


By Christopher Harris
Commonwealth Journal
May 8, 2021
3 hrs ago
Kathy Townsend (far left) and JaKaye Garth (in the foreground), seen speaking here at this year’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day event in Somerset, are two of the founders of the Lake Cumberland Diversity Council, along with Rikiyah Pryor.
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In his 1963 commencement address at American University, the late President John F. Kennedy famously said, “If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
Here in Somerset — thanks to the tumultuous summer of 2020 — local people are working on making this community at least, if not the world itself, safer for its own diversity to flourish.

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