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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.
WUKY’s own DeBraun Thomas will be featured in the documentary ‘Taking Cheapside’ that will be screened at the Lyric Theatre Saturday night.
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.