My Grandfather was seventeen-years-old when the city of Louisville was swallowed alive by the surging waters of the Ohio some seven decades ago. The pictures are old and grainy – depicting a Louisville in a faded mantle of sepia and smoke that looks so unfamiliar to the streets we now traipse by heart. I pass flood markers everyday on my bus trek to work, shifting a sleepy gaze on the tin sign bolted to the corner streetlight of 4th and York. The water level was high; the bottom of the sign grazing a measurement well into a comfortable swimming level.
A Kentucky bridge collapsed after being struck by a cargo ship that was carrying space rocket components to Florida's coast for NASA and the Air Force. No injuries were reported.
Children are our future, or so we keep saying.
It seems as though lawmakers in Kentucky, and Jefferson county specifically, are focused on ensuring that adults' political and financial interests come before the interests of our children.
In saying "our children," the implication here lies specifically on black children living in the commonwealth of Kentucky.
The Kentucky State Senate got an unexpected present from Paula, the African Blackfooted penguin, today during a vote regarding the local aquarium where Paula currently lives.
According to Gawker,
