On Tuesday, Democrats Jecorey Arthur and Cassie Chambers Armstrong secured wins in the Democratic primary election. Neither candidate will face Republican opposition in November, thus running unopposed and already securing the council seats in Districts 4 and 8 respectively.
Read MoreWhile running for the council seat in December, Arthur said if he won, he’d be one of the first elected officials who identifies as ADOS — an American Descendant of Slavery. He promised to start a metro council committee for reparations “so that we can address the true way to put a dent in the Black-white lineage racial wealth gap.”
Read MoreJecorey Arthur beat six other candidates in the Democratic primary for the seat representing downtown and nearby neighborhoods held by Barbara Sexton Smith, who was not seeking reelection.
Read MoreLOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jecorey Arthur and Cassie Chambers Armstrong, who won Democratic primaries in Jefferson County, will be new Louisville Metro Council members next year.
Read MoreOn this day last year, Louisville Metro Government honored the 2019 BMe Genius Fellows by giving us a day. In honor of Jecorey Arthur Day 2020 I am asking Louisvillians to do the following.
Read MoreJecorey Arthur, 28, a Black musician and educator running for the Louisville Metro Council, said when he announced his campaign late last year he was told “don’t talk about race so much, people aren’t ready to have that conversation.”
Read MoreOver the past six months this political campaign has had the same purpose as my other initiatives — make Louisville better.
Read MoreA Juneteenth Celebration
Read More“This year, we wanted to dive deeper into what Juneteenth meant,” Arthur, who is also a former employee of Louisville Public Media, said. “And not only the celebration of the day itself, but what was happening before Juneteenth, what happened during Juneteenth and what happened after Juneteenth… a deep dive into the history of slavery and the abolishment of it and how there’s really a throughline of Neo-slavery that still exists today that we are still impacted by.”
Read More"I often hear people say that Abraham Lincoln freed us when slavery was abolished, but in reality, he fired us," Arthur said. "We were no longer valuable assets and worth the trouble of keeping the plantations in the South."
Read More“We don't need our city taking down symbols of white supremacy,” Jecorey Arthur, an activist who the local paper reported is also running for a seat on the local city council, tweeted earlier this week. “We need our city taking down systems of white supremacy. While we're removing this let's remove no-knock warrants, cash bail, and the increase to LMPD weapons in the upcoming budget.”
Read More“We don’t need to just take down symbols of white supremacy.”
Read MoreWe recently asked local activist, musician, award-winning teacher, father and Democratic candidate for Louisville Metro Council District 4, Jecorey Arthur, to comment on the recent protests against police brutality and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Arthur also shared ways our community can support the movement.
Read MoreJecorey Arthur (@jecoreyarthur), a Louisville Metro Council District 4 candidate, tweeted, “We are done with this system. We are resetting it. We are the ones. Who’s ready? #ADOS #BlackLivesMatter.”
Read MoreI’m committed to making positive changes every day and bringing honest conversations about racism, white privilege and the micro-aggressions felt by Black people into our home. Beyond that, I want to move beyond lip service and into action. Supporting more Black political candidates (I’ve been especially excited about the work Jecorey Arthur is doing locally), Black-owned businesses and partnering/working with more Black partners in our work at Lemonade.
Read More"We don't need our city taking down symbols of white supremacy," Jecorey Arthur, a local activist, educator and musician, wrote in a tweet Monday. "We need our city taking down systems of white supremacy.”
Read MoreIn Louisville, Kentucky, the issues highlighted in protests over the police killing of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, could boost the efforts of city council candidates running on similar platforms, including Jecorey Arthur, a 28-year-old musician, educator and activist who is running in the June 23 Democratic primary for an open seat on the Louisville Metro Council.
Read MoreJecorey Arthur, a professor at Simmons College of Kentucky who lives in the same neighborhood as YaYa's BBQ and is running for city council there, used to frequent McAtee's stand, even though he is vegetarian.
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