"There's potential (for unity), but we can't get to that point until you acknowledge the injustice," said Jecorey Arthur, a local musician and Louisville Metro councilman-elect. "To say the Kentucky Derby is a time of unity when it is the symbol of segregation in our city shows your lack of knowledge about reality."
Read MoreLOUISVILLE — The days before America’s most famous horse race typically engulf this city in a whirl of activity and opulent anticipation. The Kentucky Derby is as much about $1,000 mint juleps and flamboyant millinery as a hoof-pounding competition that lasts barely two minutes.
Read MoreI am Black. Beyond being Black by look, I'm Black by lineage. Meaning, I have inherited debt, I have inherited trauma from generation after generation of neglected people, of enslaved people, of Jim Crow people. That was the lens I announced my campaign from. I have been very clear from the start that my goal is to fix Black Louisville.
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Dear students — here is your assignment this semester! Let's all win.
Shoutout to our District 4 JCPS Brown, Roosevelt-Perry, Lincoln, Breckinridge-Franklin, Coleridge Taylor, Byck, Shelby, Meyzeek, Western, Central, Breckinridge Metro, Ahrens, and Heuser!
"As her family, we can do much, but there's no timeframe on when she's going to be OK and able to fend for herself," Trinity's grandfather said. "… Something needs to be done, and the law needs to prevail, at least in this case, because this child is innocent."
Read More“This moment is probably the smartest in all of the history of the human race, with the most access we’ve ever had to information and technology. In the 1820s, when the Louisville police department was created, we didn’t have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Google. You didn’t have news at the tip of your fingers. And we also have advanced past a moment where, in the ’80s, we had the Michael Jacksons and the Bill Cosbys of the world, the Whitney Houstons of the world. They were the forefront of what America thought life was like for Black people. But they really created a veil that we almost hid behind, and our struggles hid behind, our failures hid behind. We see Beyoncé and LeBron James and Michael Jordan and we think that’s what it means to be Black in America.”
Read MoreArthur, 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.
Read More"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.
Read MoreAt 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.
Read MoreJecorey 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.
Read MoreCBC 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreICYMI 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.
Read MoreWill 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.
Read More"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.
Read MoreJordan speaks with Jecorey Arthur, newly elected Louisville Metro Council member, about the murder of Breonna Taylor and ongoing protests.
Read More“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.”
Read More"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.
Read MoreThe 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.
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