Consistent exposure to music, like learning to play a musical instrument, or taking voice lessons, strengthens a particular set of academic and social-emotional skills that are essential to learning. In ways that are unmatched by other pursuits, like athletics for instance, learning music powerfully reinforces language skills, builds and improves reading ability, and strengthens memory and attention, according to the latest research on the cognitive neuroscience of music.
Read MoreMayor Greg Fischer and Metro Council members today announced the city is in contract negotiations to devote about $32 million of federal American Rescue Plan (ARP) dollars to five community organizations for permanent supportive housing projects, providing help to vulnerable people not only with more stable housing, but also more opportunities for stability and productivity in their lives.
Read MoreA new study reveals that 20 percent of Kentucky's child care centers could be at risk of closure. Kentucky Edition looks at what's behind the problem.
Read MoreOn August 18, 2022, EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan signed the Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention (SCCAP) Proposed Rule, which proposes revisions to the Risk Management Program (RMP) to further protect vulnerable communities from chemical accidents, especially those living near facilities with high accident rates. The proposed rule would strengthen the existing program and includes new safeguards that have not been addressed in prior RMP rules. In addition to accepting written comments during the public comment period, EPA is also holding virtual public hearings. The virtual public hearings will provide the opportunity to present information, comments or views pertaining to the SCCAP proposed rule.
Read MoreDiscussions about atonement for the enslavement of Black Americans has a long history in the United States. Most famously, General William T. Sherman drafted Special Field Order 15 in 1865. The order stipulated that Confederate land seized in Georgia and South Carolina would be split among formerly enslaved Black people in those states, no more than 40 acres per family.
Read MoreMetro Councilman Jecorey Arthur, D-4th District, who represents downtown, part of the West End and neighborhoods just east of the Central Business District, said he is finalizing an ordinance that would do just that after meeting with the Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods and officials in other cities with gun buyback programs.
Read MoreA federal grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, returned two indictments that were unsealed today, and the Department of Justice filed a third charging document today, in connection with an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old woman who was shot and killed in her Louisville home on March 13, 2020, by police officers executing a search warrant.
Read MoreIn one word, what’s your biggest hope for Louisville?
“Organization.”
In one word, what’s your biggest fear for Louisville?
“Disorganization.”
Read MoreLouisville’s Office of Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods is building a comprehensive violence prevention network by connecting new and existing programs run by nonprofits, government agencies and grassroots groups alike that officials say will be fully operational by summer.
Read MoreDespite policy mandating “detox inmates” like Dunbar be checked on by officers every 20 minutes, an internal investigation found the only time guards had eyes on her for the 18 hours she was confined in the booth was when officers “happened to walk by while conducting other business.” The evening before she hanged herself using a pair of soiled pants, one of those officers gave her the middle finger through the rectangular window of the booth’s door.
Read MoreThe majority of Americans don’t work from home, but among those who do, there’s a battle going on about where they’ll work in the future. And it’s not just people who enjoy remote work who are upset about the return to the office.
Read MoreThe racial disparity was just one of several failings GAO identified in a trio of long-awaited reports Tuesday on the U.S. unemployment insurance system and how it fared during Covid-19. The pandemic and subsequent shutdowns triggered an unprecedented wave of demand for jobless benefits, which — even with additional aid from Congress — the network was ill-equipped to meet.
Read MoreThese are no petty thefts; they are enormously significant. The 1980s was a period of heightened interest among Black Americans in the histories and genealogies severed by slavery, as historian Danielle Wiggins writes. Hundreds of thousands attended “Black Family Reunions” in this decade, inspired by the 1977 television miniseries Roots. For police to destroy family photos, as well as objects handed down through Jim Crow, was to further alienate families from their identities and their pasts. For Black renters without other assets to their name, communities and histories are an inheritance.
Read MoreThe need for affordable housing continues to grow in urban centers. The traditional form of affordable housing for suburban and rural areas, mobile homes, have become overrun with speculation, pricing people out through a new type of landlord - private equity.
Read MoreIn classical music’s corner of this, there are brilliant composers that have too long been neglected in the Western tradition, and here we celebrate some of the most famous and influential Black composers in classical music history. Black lives matter now, and absolutely always.
Read MoreJefferson County has 6 special polling locations: The Jeffersonian, Broadbent Arena at K.F.E.C., Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, Mary Queen of Peace, Sun Valley Community Center Multipurpose Rm, and Triple Crown Pavilion.
Read MoreFunding for permanent supportive housing constitutes the largest piece of San Francisco’s budget for the homeless, and the supply of housing is growing rapidly. It consists mostly of older hotels converted into single-room-occupancy residences. The city contracts with a dozen nonprofit organizations to run the nearly 150 buildings and manage social services, such as moving people in and out of units, maintaining the properties and managing individual cases, including everything from connecting people to treatment for substance use disorder to helping someone apply for food stamps. Residents pay 30% of their income, including Social Security benefits, toward rent, and the city subsidizes the rest.
Read MoreKing would say later: “He is very articulate, but I totally disagree with many of his political and philosophical views — at least insofar as I understand where he now stands.”
Read More“This money is helping to build up the best so that we can bring in the best because you can never attract eagles if your institutions are chicken coops,” said Dr. Kevin Cosby, president of Simmons College. “Thank you, Brown Forman.”
Read MoreLet me say from the beginning, I believe that all elected officials should do everything within their power to deliver efficient services and good government to all of their constituents. And all of those constituents should hold high expectations for every public official. Have there been some Black public officials who, as with all groups, sought elected office only as a stepping stone to somewhere else or as a means of empowering or enriching themselves? Of course. But we need to acknowledge that Black elected leaders who are genuinely dedicated to serving the public still face mountains of discrimination and racism, and this must be factored in when assessing their efficacy.
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