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Arthur, who has been a visible presence at the ongoing protests downtown, said it's unbelievable this conversation even has to take place in 2020.

"This panel in itself is based on the assumption that downtown was never meant to be racially just," he said.

"Everything happening between the pandemic and the protests that's really just 200 years imploding on itself but in Louisville, in the last two centuries," Metro councilmember Jecorey Arthur said.

At 28-years-old, Arthur is a local musician, professor, and organizer who now wants to tackle gentrification’s negative effects and turn them into positive ones, where the community is served first and foremost, once he takes office.

Jecorey Arthur, who at 28 is the youngest person to be elected to the city’s metro council and will sit on the body starting in January, said Louisville was still “very much ” operated by “plantation capitalists and plantation dynasties” and is unsurprised by the slow action on Taylor’s case.

CBC News Network host Michael Serapio speaks to activist and professor Jecorey Arthur about the ongoing protests in Louisville, sparked by the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.

The city of Louisville, Kentucky, has been rocked by the shooting death of Breonna Taylor by police in March. Jecorey Arthur, who has become the youngest person ever elected to the Louisville Metro Council at the age of 28, said he wants to address the systemic racism in his hometown.

ICYMI please congratulate Kentucky's very own Brandon S. Turner for being a 2020 Emmy® Nominee! So much has changed since I appeared in his segment last summer. We'll have to do a followup — from the streets to the stage, to the classroom, to the council.

Will host a live Virtual Town Hall meeting to gain valuable feedback and answer questions about how JCPS is preparing for the start of the upcoming school year. Community members are encouraged to post questions in the comments section of the district’s Twitter (@JCPSKY) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/JCPSKY) pages prior to the Town Hall. Questions will also be taken live during the virtual meeting. At the beginning of the meeting we’ll announce the phone number to text your comments or questions.

"Surrender" is the third Juneteenth Jubilee episode in our seven part video series. Juneteenth marks the American holiday commemorating the June 19, 1865 announcement of the abolition of the remaining enslaved African Americans in the Confederacy.

Jordan speaks with Jecorey Arthur, newly elected Louisville Metro Council member, about the murder of Breonna Taylor and ongoing protests.

“By a show of hands, how many of you have gone to a birthday party? By a show of hands, how many of you have gone to a birthday party that you were never invited to?” he said before reading a section of the Declaration. “‘Cause as an American descendant of slavery, that’s what the Fourth of July feels like every single year.”

"We're here demanding justice for Breonna Taylor and we will demand it until we get it and beyond," said District 4 councilman-elect, Jecorey Arthur.

The music teacher and hip-hop artist is also known for his community activism and his impassioned speeches at the protests in support of Breonna Taylor, the woman fatally shot by LMPD officers.

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.

While 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.”

Jecorey 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.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jecorey Arthur and Cassie Chambers Armstrong, who won Democratic primaries in Jefferson County, will be new Louisville Metro Council members next year.

On 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.

Jecorey 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.”