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A LETTER TO THE COMMUNITY

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BY LEO WEEKLY We at LEO offer our sincerest congratulations to The Courier Journal for winning its 11th Pulitzer Prize, this one for studiously and unrelentingly chronicling the avalanche of last-minute pardons and commutations handed out by the corrupt, craven and mercenary Gov.-reject Matt Bevin.

We are fortunate as a city to have it as our paper. In a poignant tribute and plea, former CJ reporter Howard Fineman wrote in The Washington Post that the paper’s latest plaudit “should remind us (and surely was meant to remind us), that what we call ‘local’ journalism is profoundly essential to self-government as the Founders designed it, and to the American way of life.” He cited a study that found nearly 1,800 newspapers have closed since 2004, and he said, “Virtually all of the remaining 7,000 are thinner and weaker than ever.” He implored you to subscribe to the paper because, as the op-ed’s headline said: “My former newspaper is struggling — and is more important than ever.”

This is all true, but there is more.

What Fineman’s op-ed neglected to underscore is that the news media landscape extends far beyond daily newspapers and must include alternative weeklies.

Alt-weeklies also provide “local journalism” and are “profoundly essential.” They are critically important because they work in the margins and areas where newspapers do not or cannot. They provide free-to-read accounts of a community’s culture, ethos and priorities. Good ones are not substitutes for daily newspapers, although their coverage and stories may overlap.

At LEO, our goal since John Yarmuth founded it in 1990 has been to dive deeply into areas that The CJ and other mainstream news media have neglected, dismissed or overlooked. Accordingly, LEO is the authority on local music, theater and visual arts. We publish A&E guides twice a year. Every issue of LEO has (or had) at least two food and drink stories, including reviews, a beer column and insiders’ views on the service industry. We offer a range of commentary, which, admittedly, skews left but also has included conservative and right-leaning views (such as a column from, gasp — Mitch McConnell). We print op-eds that The CJ would not, such as from Black Lives Matter. We champion equality and provide a voice to the LGBTQ+ community. Our printed and online lists celebrate the best things to do in the region to help you plan your week and weekends. We also publish news stories that are written differently (we’d like to say, more interestingly) than a newspaper would run. They include primary source stories (first-person) and stories told through alternative (there is that word again) formats. Our core topics include those that the daily paper rarely touches, such as urban planning, race relations, labor and the environment (since The CJ’s ace enviro reporter moved on). And, they include media criticism (we are looking at you CJ, but we have given ourselves thorns) because who else is going to do it?

In short, Louisville has at least six ways you can get your news, counting TV and radio.

We try to not be like any of them.

We try not to tell the same story.

We try to be more interesting and less predictable.

And the hundreds of thousands of people who read us and click on our stories tell us we are doing something right.

Alas, LEO, as you might imagine, also has been crippled by this virus, as have alt-weeklies across the nation.

LEO is free to pick up and relies almost entirely on advertising. No subscriptions. No grants. No membership drive for donations twice a year.

The backbone of our advertising is entertainment (think: music, ballet, theater and visual art) and food and drink. Similarly, we distribute to places where people enjoy those activities and relax (think: bars, coffee shops, restaurants, etc.), and those have been closed. LEO already runs lean and has not had to furlough any editorial staff — yet — but our editorial budget has been cut by three-quarters. LEO has been online-only mostly since the epidemic began. Starting with this issue, our goal is to publish a print edition every other week. Fortunately, we have been an outlier among alt-weeklies, so far.

A story from NiemanLab listed more than 40 alt-weeklies that had taken steps to survive within just days of us all realizing this pandemic was real.

Many suspended print publication, others furloughed staff and, still, others asked for donations.

They included Pittsburgh City Paper, which launched a membership program: “in order to help fight some of these losses, with the hope that readers who depend on our daily coverage of local news, arts, music, food, and entertainment recognize the importance in the work we do to keep the city informed and want us to continue.”

We like that idea!

Won’t you please consider helping to fund LEO’s mission by underwriting a reporter or providing financial support for more stories?

You could sponsor a reporter to cover a specific topic or issue, such as visual arts or theater or labor… or poverty… or the environment or… you name it.

Perhaps you want to sponsor a weekly column on dance or jazz, or you want to underwrite a series of stories on land use in The West End. You would not have a say in exactly what we write and what gets printed, but you would see more coverage in the area you have selected.

If you are interested, please contact us at: leoweekly.com And, please, if you value LEO and want us to continue to survive and thrive, continue picking up the papers, continue sharing stories on social media and consider advertising if you do not already.

As always but particularly now, thank you for reading LEO, and thanks to all of you who have emailed and called to ask when you would see another printed edition on the news stands.

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She enjoys chasing and being chased so an energetic doggy friend would be best for our little Bella. Bella is still very puppy-like and can be silly. When she gets really excited she will get the zoomies, even on leash! Once she's had some play time she is happy to sit in the shade and hang out. Could you be the one for this sweetheart? Bella is spayed, micro-chipped, up-to-date on vaccinations and ready to go home with you! To learn how to adopt Bella, visit the Kentucky Humane Society's website at kyhumane.org.

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ON: MIXING BUSINESS AND POLITICS, RESTAURANTS PROMOTE RACIAL JUSTICE

Racial equality isn’t “politics.” It’s morality. Every business operates based on a moral code. —Lacy Phillips Darnell Ferguson, do what you do man. We will always support your restaurant. —Chris King I will support his restaurant even more knowing this!

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ON: EDITOR’S NOTE, THE NEW POLICE CHIEF SHOULD BE... NO ONE!

Why don’t you advocate to end victimless crimes (drug war, licensing laws etc) and perhaps privatize police — communities and businesses can come together to find who serves them the best, any government solution is central monopoly planning and is doomed to fail. —Human Action @Human_actionLLC Move to Oldham. Air is cleaner, property values are more stable, they have excellent police and emergency services and far better schools! —Ian McIan Ian McIan, and we’ve got DW Griffith and police who know which side to be on. —Top Youth Soccer Recruits for Trump

ON: ANORA MARIE MORTON, NOW IS THE TIME FOR BLACK PROSECUTORS

More prosecutors that care about people’s constitutional rights?

Hell no just give me more black ones —WaddyPeytona @WPeytona [The] premise of this is faulty. You are basically saying black prosecutors can’t be objective and will look out for their own.

—50 Shades of Red @gdawg502 Otherwise, I guess we’ll have to dismantle the whole dystopian police state. —Evin Rued @ohhaiimnairb

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Next time some vandalizes your van, call the library for help.

—Andrew D Marler

Andrew D Marler, next time someone vandalizes your van, call your insurance company. The police won’t do shit about it.

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CITY TO POLICE DEFUNDERS: FU!

By Keith Stone | kstone@leoweekly.com IF THE BUDGET IS A VISION for Louisville, then what Mayor Greg Fischer proposed and the Metro Council approved last week shows they are blind, and they think we are too.

It is a reminder for Louisville: Watch what Fischer and the council do because you cannot necessarily believe what they say.

Like when Fischer talks up his Compassionate City booster pap, but he also allows an incompetent police chief to continue to brutalize and harass Black citizens.

Like when his inaction, complicity or both led the police to kill Breonna Taylor.

Like when the cops or cop who shot her kept their jobs as an investigation into questions — including possibly why they were at her apartment in the first place — crawls along months later, still not completed.

Like when he allowed the National Guard with loaded guns to patrol The West End to enforce curfew. That bad decision ended in the death of David McAtee.

Or, when the police finally released an incident report for Breonna Taylor’s death, and it contained almost no information but misspelled her middle name and said she had not suffered injuries.

And then, when people — Black and white — took over downtown to protest peacefully against police violence, they were

met with more police violence.

Just this past weekend, when the protesters continued their peaceful occupation of Jefferson Square Park, a public space, the police cleared it out and said workers would “pack up the tents in the park and ensure all the belongings are secured so they can be returned to their owners.” Instead, they were tossed into dumpsters and sent to the city solid waste center where people could search for their car and house keys, cameras, clothing and other valuables. Fischer apologized and offered to pay for the losses, but who wants to give the city their name and address?

Would you trust them to not use that information against you?

Perhaps most telling is how the city has handled the 2020-21 budget, you, know — their vision for the city.

The Louisville Urban League and some 50 community groups and individuals sent Fischer and the council a letter detailing the changes they want, starting with the police.

“The actions of LMPD clearly demonstrated that we cannot trust them to protect and serve all of us regardless of where we live or the color of our skin. It’s difficult to imagine a more serious breach of trust than when police unnecessarily kill the people

they are charged to protect,” they wrote.

“The police department, the justice department and our elected officials have repeatedly failed those whom they have pledged to serve. While 400 years overdue, there is an opportunity to change right now.”

“It is time for Louisville to begin investing in qualified first responders and reducing police presence and influence in our personal lives, community affairs, and city/ organizational budgets,” they wrote. “To that end, and in addition to a complete overhaul of LMPD’s organizational structure, protocols, and practices, we are demanding an immediate reduction and reallocation of LMPD’s current budget and a move toward divestment in police and investment in the appropriate first responders. Nurses, psychologists, and social workers are better equipped than police to handle belligerent patients, homeless people, and those with mental illness. They do it every day. And they do it without lethal force.”

Even a councilman, albeit one not seeking re-election, put forth a plan to defund the police. Brandon Coan called for cutting the police budget by 15%, about $27 million, over the next three years. Some of that money would go to hire community health and social workers to help respond to calls for service, and the rest would be spent to help lift up the Black community instead of locking it down and up.

What did the Urban League and the some 50 groups and individuals and Coan get?

A big FU.

Instead of cutting or redistributing money, the police got even more — $750,200. The $190 million police budget still is about a third of the entire operating budget.

In its press release, the council listed just three items for “Law Enforcement Reform”: —$763,500 for a civilian oversight system. As LEO staff writer Danielle Grady found, community activists doubt the group will be civilian enough to judge the police with any rigor or honesty.

—$1.2 million in state LMPD money for “exploration and implementation in deflection along with co-responder approaches which place behavioral health specialists with police to offer case management connections to treatment, housing, and services.”

Whatever the fuck that means. Who writes this stuff? We think it means pairing social and mental health workers with police — a good thing, but just $1.2 million?

—And $1.6 million in federal funds to make “a police force which [sic] more closely looks like and lives in the community; and training, including use of force, de-escalation, and implicit bias.”

That means more Black officers and teaching officers to not be racist and to not reach for the gun as a first impulse.

Again, not enough.

If the budget is our city leaders’ vision for Louisville, then they are blind to what is happening on the streets.

We are not. •

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KAREN IS YOU

By Hannah L. Drake | leo@leoweekly.com THE KAREN PHENOMENON has entered social media almost outdoing Becky With The Good Hair. There are entire Facebook groups dedicated to Karen and T-shirts made about Karen, and daily I read a post or blog about Karen.

So who is Karen? Karen is defined by “Slang Dictionary” as a mocking term for an entitled, obnoxious, middle-aged, white woman.

Don’t be confused. Karen is not Becky.

Becky is Karen’s offspring. Becky wears Fenty foundation shades that are too dark for her.

Becky co-opts TikTok dances created by Black youth. Becky wears cornrows, says the N-word and has adapted an accent as if she has been around Black people her entire life. Becky attempts to emulate everything Black women do for her gain. Becky loves Black culture but not anything to do with the day to day struggles of Black people. Becky is the type of woman who likes to dance in the rain but not get wet. Becky loves Black rhythm but wants nothing to do with our blues. Becky is very different from Karen.

Karen believes she has clout, prestige and status. Karen’s entire life is centered around her feelings of entitlement. Karen believes that the world should bend to her whim any time she says so. Karen hates to be inconvenienced

by Black people doing simple things: walking in her neighborhood, bringing packages to her door, following the rules about social distancing in restaurants. Karen is always allowed to be the victim and plays the part with Oscar-worthy expertise.

Just looking at Karen, she seems harmless.

She is often very unassuming and is nonthreatening in appearance. Still, women like Karen have not only supported racism but have instituted and upheld racism throughout history. While the Karen memes are sweeping across the internet and becoming a part of our lexicon, it is important to note women like Karen are dangerous women.

Karens are women such as Carolyn Bryant Donham. Carolyn falsely claimed that 14-yearold Emmett Till whistled at her, which resulted in her husband and brother killing him. They made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton gin fan to the Tallahatchie Riverbank and ordered him to take off his clothes. The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head and then threw his body, tied to the cotton-gin fan with barbed wire, into the river. It was not until 2008, over 50 years later, that Carolyn admitted that she lied, stating that Emmett Till never touched, threatened or harassed her, stating, “Nothing that boy did could ever justify

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what happened to him.”

White women are not innocent bystanders when it comes to racism; in fact, they are co-conspirators — historically and currently.

That is the dangerous reality of Karens.

After witnessing video after video of white women being labeled Karen for their outrageous behavior, it was not until I saw these pictures come across my social media feed that I knew now was the time for me to address “Karen.”

These two women have been identified as Gretha Stenger and Larkin Small.

Both women were attending a gathering to protest stay at home orders due to the coronavirus. (Before I continue, let me be clear: I believe that their protest is ridiculous; however, I believe in everyone’s right to protest.) The women being outside practicing their constitutional rights are of no concern to me.

In fact, I find it downright hilarious that many white people, who love to dictate how Black people should navigate spaces, are having a full-blown tantrum because they can’t sit somewhere in a restaurant.

Not because of their race but simply because governors are trying to keep them healthy. (Oh the oppression.)

What did get my attention is the sign they are each holding that states, “Muzzles are for dogs and slaves. I am a free human being.” (So, let me be clear, according to the sign it was OK to muzzle Black people? OK. Interesting,) The sign also has a picture of Escrava Anastacia, an enslaved woman of African descent who lived in Brazil sometime during the 19th century who wears a scold’s bridle on her face. Stories vary as to why Escrava Anastacia was placed in the mask; some say it was jealousy due to her beauty. Some say it is because she refused the sexual advances of her owner.

However, we know that the general construction of the mask works by either compressing

the wearer’s tongue flat or to the roof of their mouth, rendering them unable to speak. Escrava was permitted to remove the mask once a day to eat. In the article, “The Girl In The Iron Mask,” it is stated: “After being forced to wear this collar continuously, over time the iron that it was made out of is believed to have essentially poisoned her.

So not only was she workGretha Stenger. ing in sugar cane fields all day while wearing this mask, only being fed once a day, it turns out she was slowly being poisoned to death as well.” Escrava Anastacia eventually died of tetanus after suffering physically, locked behind an iron mask.

What Escrava AnastaLarkin Small. cia faced is the reality and horror of slavery. It in no way compares to Larkin and Gretha being asked to stay home for their own personal health and the health and well-being of others. It is no way like wearing a mask in public Escrava Anastacia. to run errands. I have previously addressed this issue so my focus of this is the women with the sign.

Pictured in the black dress, is Gretha. She is dressed nicely, has on a cute denim jacket, a red scarf around her neck and sunglasses. When I shared this photo online, a few people said they do not know this woman. But in fact, you do.

You just don’t think you do. If you look at her closely, you know this woman. You know her well.

She is the type of woman you would see every day in your grocery store, in the coffee shop, perhaps even walking in the neighborhood.

This woman bakes the cute cookies for your PTA meetings. She attends yoga class with you. You have met this woman for coffee. You two sip wine on lazy Saturday afternoons. She teaches theater to your children for the town productions.

She is your photographer who takes cute pictures of your children. Sometimes you trade recipes

with her. You and this woman go on walks together. Your kids hang out with her kids. You invite her to Sunday brunch, where you laugh over avocado toast topped with sprouts. She is your child’s teacher, your college professor, your doctor, your nurse or your mail carrier. She is your neighbor who organizes the Fourth of July block party. She is your church member or Sunday School teacher. She is your cousin, your aunt, your sister or even your mom. She speaks to you about the weather and hopes it doesn’t get too much colder during May so her flowers can blossom. She is a liberal. She even voted for Hillary Clinton. She wouldn’t dare be in the 53% and, in fact, if she could vote for former President Barack Obama a third time, she would. She has Black friends, so she couldn’t dare be racist.

Many people believe that when they encounter racists, they will be adorned in a Klu Klux Klan hood or a white man with a shaved head and swastikas all over his body. The truth is many of the racists you encounter will look just like Karen. As Dr. King said, “First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action;’ who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a ‘more convenient season.’ Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”

So look closely at this woman.

See her.

Perhaps go stand in front of a mirror.

And don’t just look at your outer appearance that blends in with day to day life.

Look inwardly.

Examine your heart.

You just may find, this woman is you… • Hannah L. Drake is an author, poet and spoken word artist. Follow her at writesomeshit. com and on Twitter at hannahdrake628.

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WEST OF NINTH @WESTOFNINTHLOUISVILLE PEOPLE, IN THEIR OWN WORDS...

By Walt and Marshae Smith | leo@leoweekly.com June 1, 2020 Sahura Bast Nefer Ka, Parkland side of 26th Street and Broadway “RIGHT NOW, I’M OVERWHELMED with emotions. I know right from wrong. I know how important human life is, but I’m hurt because it’s our lives that are undervalued. Our neighborhoods are disrespected. It’s my brothers, my nephews, my cousins and my friends that are being killed and lied on. I’m angry, and I’m hurt.

We need better leadership and better government officials. Maybe we need government officials that look like us and understand our struggle and our story. We need something different because the people that have been in office, and the people that are running it, are running it into the ground, starting with us first. I don’t believe in the violence, but I understand it. I’m not going to participate in it. I’m gonna let each man handle their own consciousness.

I’m gonna encourage each man to handle their own consciousness and their own safety.

My message to my community is to be vigilant, to pay attention to what’s going on around you on a deeper level and don’t get tricked by the superficiality of it all. Understand that there’s an agenda. I would like the public to pay attention to House Bill 6666 [for COVID-19 testing] and what other House bills, because this is setup. There were no COVID cases in The West End for a month and a half before they opened the testing site in Shawnee Park. COVID didn’t get us, so they sent the National Guard to finish the job that the virus couldn’t start or finish. That’s my message to the public.” • West of Ninth began as a Louisville photography blog, westofninth.com, by two Russell residents, Walt and Shae Smith. With a love for their community, Walt and Shae see the value and potential of all nine neighborhoods that make West Louisville. Armed with a Nikon DSLR, a recorder and the ability to never meet a stranger, their goal is to shed light on the attributes that make West of Ninth the greatest.

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CITY DESTROYS PROTESTERS’ PROPERTY AND SUPPLIES COMMUNITY JOINS TO DONATE MORE THE NEXT DAY THE OUTPOURING from the community has been enormous: A call would go out for supplies to help protesters occupying Jefferson Square Park, and people delivered pounds and pounds of ice, water, charcoal, food, medical supplies and whatever else was needed.

On Saturday night, a man allegedly shot to death 27-year-old Tyler Gerth, a photographer. The police then moved in to clear the park.

They would not let people back in to get their belongings. Instead, LMPD spokesman Lamont Washington said Metro Public Works officials would “pack up the tents in the park and ensure all the belongings are secured so they can be returned to their owners” at 600 Meriwether Ave., The Courier Journal reported.

As you can see from these photos, the property had been jammed into garbage trucks, compacted and left in dumpsters at the city’s solid waste center.

Mandy Bell, one of the protesters, told LEO that she had left the park for a short time and returned to find “only Breonna’s memorial was standing, all else gone — the tents we lived in, the medic tent and supplies, the food canopies, food, generators, coolers, waters, protest signs. The police statement said our things would be secured and could be collected at 600 Meriwether so I headed there and was first on the scene. All of our belongings had been tossed into dumpsters — not all — we later realized our generators, large coolers, sound system and several tents, among other things, were missing. We quickly solicited help and salvaged what we could from the dumpsters ...

All of the tents and canopies were broken. Another dumpster was later found across the street, with those belongings having been run through a trash compactor. Many folks were unable to find their phones, keys, or necessary medications. A houseless woman’s wheelchair was smashed.

This is another example of police brutality to add to the pile.”

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THORNS & ROSES THE WORST, BEST & MOST ABSURD THORN + ROSE: YES, MACHINE POLITICS WIN AGAIN, BUT A STAR HAS BEEN BORN

So, Amy McGrath edged out Charles Booker. We think yet another moderate, built-by-the-machine Democrat is going to lose against The Evil One. But we also hope that people who so passionately supported Charles will not stay home in the fall. Because maybe, just maybe, the good folks out in the state will realize how badly The Evil One is screwing all of us and join in to beat him. As for Charles, we predict a brilliant political career ahead. Watching him ascend has been wonderful.

THORN: HOW NOT TO HANDLE A CRISIS

On this page you see photos of protesters’ property that the city destroyed. Who the fuck is advising the mayor? Sure, throw away the protesters’ property. Sure, issue a police report on Breonna Taylor’s slaying with no information. Sure, tear gas peaceful protesters. Sure, send the National Guard because people are outside too late... If only the mayor had Toby Ziegler from “The West Wing” to advise him instead of Mr. Smithers.

THORN: LONG KNIVES ARE OUT FOR FISCHER

This was how the city ensured the protesters’ belongings were “secured so they can be returned to their owners.” | PHOTO BY MANDY BELL.

The mayor’s blithering might get him ousted from office. The Democratic-controlled Metro Council is en route to open an investigation into how he handled Breonna Taylor’s fatal shooting and David McAtee’s death. It might be grandstanding for some, such as Councilman Anthony Piagentini, R-19th District, who is vice chair of the committee seeking the probe and may want the hardest job in Louisville for himself. But the chairman is a Democrat. When The Courier Journal asked whether this sets up a push to axe the mayor, Councilman Brent Ackerson said: “We don’t want to jump to any conclusions” and “At the end of the day, what we want is … the truth. And from there, people can make reasonable conclusions, based upon facts.”

ROSE: BREONNA TAYLOR MEMORIAL BRIDGE? A rose for the protesters blocked the Second Street “Butter” Bridge to demand racial equality and justice.

If the mayor had better advice, he would not have allowed their arrests, and he would make permanent the Breonna Taylor banner they raised on the span.

THORN: THEN, WHAT ARE THE GOOD FOR?

An Original Highlands man reported five abandoned vehicles on his block and at least 12 in his neighborhood. He says Louisville Metro told him the police will not ticket because they are busy with the protests. “In their defense, the city’s 1,200 police officers and police bosses have been very busy rioting. 1,200!” he noted.

By the next day, more donations poured in for the protesters. | PHOTO BY J.P. LEBANGOOD.

NEWS & ANALYSIS

Characteristically unaware until it is too late, Mayor Greg Fischer offered an apology on Facebook: “The treatment of their personal property was not acceptable and not our intent. I apologize for the miscommunication between our Public Works crews.

We have made a mistake and we have a process in place for reimbursement.”

Some protesters say they do not want to file a claim because they feel it is a trick to get their names and information.

Bell said she will file one on behalf of her boyfriend’s property loss because the city already has her information from an arrest during the protests.

“I salvaged all of my stuff from my tent, miraculously, even though it was at the bottom of the dumpster,” she said.

The day after the park was cleared, the community again donated, filling tables with what the protesters needed to keep up their fight for racial equality and justice. •

Items salvaged from the city dump where they had been taken. | PHOTO BY VIRGINIA LEE.

Food donated for the protesters of Jefferson Square Park. | PHOTO BY J.P. LEBANGOOD.

Donations came in quickly the day after the clearing. | PHOTO BY J.P. LEBANGOOD. LEOWEEKLY.COM // JULY 1, 2020

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PROTESTERS DEMANDED DEFUNDING THE POLICE, MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL SAID: NO

By Danielle Grady | dgrady@leoweekly.com PROTESTERS, mobilized by the law enforcement killings of Black people, have been calling for American cities to defund police departments for weeks.

They got their wish, in varying degrees, in Minneapolis, Boston, Los Angeles and New York.

They did not in Louisville.

Last Thursday, Metro Council approved an operating budget that increased police funding from the year before, from $189.8 million to $190.5 million. The city’s funding plan, council members reasoned, still responds to some protester demands for reform by directing money in the capital budget to behavioral health co-responders to work alongside police. The council also provides money to the criminal justice commission for a civilian oversight board and/or office of inspector general to investigate police misconduct, as well as tens of millions of dollars meant to solve racial inequities by increasing affordable housing and building a grocery store in an “underserved” area.

That was not enough for Chanelle Helm, core organizer

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Protesters were arrested and their vehicles were towed from the Second Street Bridge this week after they tried to block it . | PHOTO BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON.

of Black Lives Matter Louisville, who wanted to strip the Louisville Metro Police Department budget of $100 million to be redistributed to social services and community public safety efforts. Black Lives Matter Louisville is part of an Invest/ Divest Louisville campaign created by grassroots organizations that Helm said will continue to advocate for defunding the police, even up to the next budget cycle.

“We owe that to our ancestors,” she said. “It’s been 400-plus years of this bullshit. Anything less is really just complacency.”

Over 50 individuals and community organizations, the majority of them from the Black community, also asked for the city to siphon money from the police budget to distribute to social investments, as well as a $50 million Black community fund.

Metro council fulfilled neither request.

Councilman Bill Hollander, chair of Metro Council’s budget committee, said the majority of the council’s members didn’t want to cut the Louisville Metro Police Department’s

budget. But, he said, the council is on the path to altering LMPD’s responsibilities.

“I think there are a number of people who use the term defund and really mean to take away all the money or abolish the police force, which is an impractical solution,” he said, “but [they] think that you should have other models in which behavioral health specialists would be involved in dealing with many of the things that we now ask the police force to be involved with. And I hope that what we did, with the funds that we were able to redirect and suggest that will be redirected, will help study and implement that kind of model.”

WHAT ‘DEFUND THE POLICE’ MEANS IN LOUISVILLE

When Shauntrice Martin, founder of Feed the West, was sexually assaulted in college, the police were no help, she said, instructing her to “figure it out” with the person who had hurt her.

And, not only are Louisville police not helpful, but Martin said that they actively harm Black people like herself. “People say that there are good cops and bad cops,” said Martin. “The idea of a cop is bad. So even if you’re a nice person and you donate your time, go to church, whatever else — the idea of policing in this country is bad. So there is only so much good you can be when the system itself is predicated upon terrorizing Black people.”

That’s why Martin is part of Louisville’s push to defund the police. Her organization, which provides food for West Louisville residents who lack access, is part of a collective that started a web page, investdivest.org, calling for the city to divest from Louisville’s police and invest in social services.

It’s the same campaign that Helm’s Black Lives Matter Louisville helped start, along with the Root Cause Research Center, the Louisville Community Grocery, Play Cousins Collective and the Louisville Association of Black Social Workers and several other Black community leaders, according to Shawnte West, a social worker who is also involved. The website is a way for all Louisville citizens to get involved in the movement, featuring calls to action and contact information and scripts for getting the attention of city officials and of other “primary targets,” such as Microsoft, which organizers want to take a stand on police reform.

The website calls for Louisville police to eventually be fully defunded, but organizations such as Black Lives Matter Louisville and the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky that have used Invest/Divest’s materials asked first for an initial $100 million divestment in 2020.

That money, the website said, could go to community safety systems instead of police, such as conflict resolution facilitators, mental health first responders and bystander intervention. And, it could flow to social services for economic development, housing, environmental justice and “community autonomy/self determination” including grocery stores and local food systems, universal basic income and in-home elder care.

“People always say, ‘well what about crime?’” said Helm.

“If people’s needs were met, people wouldn’t have to commit crime.”

On June 19, six days before Metro Council voted on their 2020-21 budget, Louisville leaders sent a 20-page petition to Mayor Greg Fischer’s office, laying out their own demands for police reform and reinvestment in Black communities.

Signed by the leaders of Louisville nonprofits, members of historically Black fraternities and sororities and religious leaders, the petition called for an “immediate reduction and reallocation of LMPD’s current budget” and “a move toward divesting in police and investment in the appropriate first responders,” such as nurses, psychologists and social workers.

The petition also requested the creation of a $50 million Black Community Fund to support small businesses, affordable housing, education and mental health treatment.

Councilman Brandon Coan was the only council member who presented a plan to defund the police. His idea, outlined in his weekly newsletter and called “a modest proposal” was to cut LMPD’s budget by 15%, or $26.8 million, over three years.

The money, he suggested, could come from cutting the next three police recruit classes, divesting from military-style police equipment and weapons and reallocating the cost savings for canceling Kentucky Derby events. And, it could go to increasing community health and social service staffing, doubling the Office for Safe & Healthy Neighborhoods budget, reinstating the city’s Small Business Development Team and devoting $1

million to reinvesting in Black communities.

At last Thursday’s meeting, Coan said he was disappointed by the lack of “serious discussion” about reducing the police budget, but he added that the council’s chosen changes were “meaningful.”

“It’s not enough, but it’s a start,” said Coan, who is not running for re-election this year.

WHAT THE COUNCIL APPROVED

Instead of defunding the police, Metro Council did the opposite, increasing its contributions to LMPD by $750,200 in its operating budget.

That jump was for salary bumps and pensions, said Hollander, which were already baked into the budget as part of the city’s contract with LMPD’s police union, River City FOP. Hollander said that, based on conversations he’s had with constituents and similar discussion his fellow council members have had, he doesn’t believe that the majority of Louisville residents want to eliminate the police department entirely.

But, the council is changing how it spends some of its police funding. It will now funnel $1.2 million in state forfeiture funds to behavioral health first responders who can tag along with police to help people they may find in need of treatment, housing and other services. The money will also go to use of force, de-escalation and implicit bias training, as well as hiring initiatives for police officers who live in the communities they work in and reflect the racial composition of those areas. The council is encouraging the mayor and LMPD to devote $1.6 million in federal forfeiture funds to the same reforms. Typically, forfeiture funds are spent on police equipment and contractors, Hollander said.

Around $763,500 will go to a future civilian review board or office of inspector general that will investigate police misconduct and possibly recommend more police reforms for LMPD. There was some outcry online when the Louisville Democratic Socialists of America pointed out that LMPD’s budget is increasing by around the same amount that the Louisville Free Public Library budget is decreasing. The LFPL budget lost $775,900 this year.

Hollander said this is because the council decided to fund the library based on how much it cost to run from 2019 to 2020 pre-COVID-19. Hollander also expects the library to run a surplus this year of around $1 million, which will go to the new budget — meaning that the library system will ultimately have more money this coming year to work with than last.

As for investment in social services, the council made an effort to set aside around $55 million for “disadvantaged and disinvested neighborhoods,” including $3.5 million for a grocery store, $1 million for “disconnected youth” and more than $9 million to tackle abandoned properties and to pave the way for Black homeownership, including direct purchase and lease-to-purchase opportunities, funding for home repairs, illegal dumping clean-up and two additional code enforcement officers for disadvantaged neighborhoods.

The money also includes $21.2 million from the federal CARES Act for rent assistance for coronavirus-related evictions and another $21.2 million for assistance for small businesses impacted by the pandemic.

“There’s a great deal to do,” said Hollander, “but this is literally tens of millions of dollars that’s invested in disadvantaged and disinvested neighborhoods.”

Hollander said he wants to continue to evaluate ways to

contribute to neighborhoods in need.

“We are going to be listening to people who live in disadvantaged neighborhoods,” he said. “And we’re going to be paying attention to the path forward for Louisville. And we hope that we can make more investments, perhaps by mid year if our revenue continues to improve.”

Louisville’s capital and operating budgets passed 24-1.

Council member Barbara Shanklin, whose District, 2, includes the Newburg neighborhood, refused to vote for them, saying that they did not do enough to fund her district. She cited a lack of sidewalk funding and activities for children as examples.

WHAT LOUISVILLE’S DEFUNDERS THINK

While Louisville Metro Council may have rejected the idea of defunding the police, other U.S. cities have not.

Boston is transferring $3 million from police overtime pay to public health. Los Angeles plans to hack off more than $133 million from its police department, and Mayor Bill De Blasio of New York City has proposed cutting $1 billion from its $6 billion police budget.

And in Minneapolis, where four former police officers are charged with killing George Floyd, its city council unanimously decided to nix the police department entirely. It is replacing police with a department of community safety and violence prevention that it says will approach public safety from a holistic, public health perspective.

Louisville’s reaction to the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Floyd and other Black people killed by police, has been revealing for Josh Poe, a co-principal investigator at the Root Cause Research Center.

“I think it’s just a great example of how disconnected Metro Council is from the needs of the community,” he said, “and how tone deaf they are to everything that’s happened in the last three weeks... What it says is the police can legally murder Black people and that they will be rewarded for it over and over again by liberal politicians” Hollander, he said, isn’t qualified to say that the majority of Louisville doesn’t support defunding the police. His constituents aren’t “terrorized and murdered” by the police, Poe added later via text message.

West appreciates some of what the council did, including Shanklin’s stand on the budget. But, she’s ultimately disappointed with their decision.

“Where are these supporters demanding that we not defund Neighborhood Places or libraries?” West said in a Facebook message. “We defund those type of programs all the time. If their concern was really about the community it would show in the budget.”

Martin said, “I think that putting money into The West End is always a good thing.” But, she doesn’t think the budget sets aside enough for a grocery store, nor does she believe that it will solve Louisville’s affordable housing crisis.

Poe said that the Louisville Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which the council has bragged about funding, doesn’t do enough to help homeowners who make 30% of the city’s median income or under.

Martin is prepared to keep advocating and demonstrating in support of defunding the police for the next year.

“We will take that $100 million in different ways, but it needs to be given,” said Martin. “It is owed to Black people, specifically, but also to Louisville in general. We can be a better Louisville if we defund police.” • LEOWEEKLY.COM // JULY 1, 2020

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STAFF PICKS THROUGH AUG. 28

‘Retrofuturism’

Flame Run | 815 W. Market St. | flamerun.com | Free To understand the concept behind this show, let’s revisit “The Jetsons.” The animated show about the JET PACKS? future, which aired in the 1960s, is full of holograms, computers and videophones (I want a mask like Jane Jetson uses).

It’s basically what its midcentury creators thought life in the future would be like.

Back in the present day, “Retrofuturism” was inspired by the same idea. “We feel that the year 2020 is a milestone in the early ideas of what our ‘(Dis)intigration Ray’ by Andrew Schultz. | Glass. future would look and feel like,” said Gallery Director Tiffany Ackerman. “By now we were expected to have flying cars, our homes populated by uni-tasking robots and be vacationing on Mars. In some ways our technology has moved beyond what futurists predicted but in others we have not moved as far as was anticipated.” A few of the glass artists included in the show are Eoin Breadon, Jason Chakravarty & Jennifer Caldwell and Andrew Schultz. —Jo Anne Triplett

THURSDAY, JULY 2

Bourbon And Botanicals Music Series

Yew Dell Botanical Gardens | 6220 Old LaGrange Road, Crestwood yewdellgardens.org/event | $5-$9 nomembers, members free | 7-8:45 p.m.

Attend an event… live! In person! Not on a screen but outside of your house! Yew Dell is back, baby! So too is the bourbon, beer and music. Starting this BLOOMS & BOOZE Thursday and every Thursday through Aug. 27, Yew Dell will host its Bourbon and Botanicals Music Series, a garden party with live, local music and 150 socially distancing friends. The band kicking off the first event of the season is Wayward Feet. Guests are encouraged to bring their own chair or blanket and are welcome to bring their own picnic dinner. Or, Red Pepper Deli will be selling boxed dinners for $12 (please order ahead of time).

Bar service will be provided by West Sixth Brewing and Morris Deli and Catering. Tickets are limited to the first 150 guests to ensure safety, and guests must wear a mask to enter. — Aaron Yarmuth

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THURSDAY, JULY 2

Get Your Doge On!

FURsdays at the Market | Bourbon City Barkery | 1001 Logan St. No cover | 5-8 p.m.

St. Catherine Street next to the Logan Street Market will be closed for a doggie block party.

Bring your doge for the puppy pools, treats for the pups and their human WOOF! companions and on-the-spot nail trimmings and more! But if you do not have a doge, there will be adoptable ones.

Organixers promise a “PAWsitively good time!”

Pups and Pints Flanagans Ale House 934 Baxter Ave. No cover | 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

Enjoy a pint with your doge! (Well, your doge gets no beer, hear?) Pup cups will be complimentary with any draft beer purchase! Flanagans is a dog bone’s throw from the Morton Avenue Dog Park. —LEO

FRIDAY, JULY 3-4

Grillin’ In The Garden With Teddy Abrams & Friends Christy’s Garden | 720 Brent St. | Search Facebook No cover | 6 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. Saturday

The grand vision of the Paristown cultural arts and entertainment district would not be complete without one of the city’s biggest boosters and gems — Teddy ‘MERICA Abrams, music director of Louisville Orchestra. Abrams and The Café in Paristown bring two nights of fun including casual, outdoor Fourth of July dinner shows featuring live local music — and fireworks at 10 p.m. Saturday. Friday will feature School of Rock and Thumper and The Plaid Rabbits; and Saturday, get ready for Carly Johnson and Teddy Abrams & Friends. Also, the Fleur de Flea Vintage Urban Market Pop-Up. The Café’s grills will be fired up in its outdoor dining space in Christy’s Garden. —LEO

STAFF PICKS

SATURDAY, JULY 3

SUNDAY, JULY 5-NOV. 29

Charlestown State Park | 12500 State Road 62, Charlestown, Indiana Search Facebook | $7-$9 per vehicle

Speed Art Museum | 2035 S. Third St. | speedmuseum.org | Prices and times vary

Take Two Hikes!

‘Andy Warhol: Revelation’

Rose Island History Hike | 4-6 p.m.

Meet at Historic Portersville Bridge for a two-hour guided hike around Rose Island, a former summer resort now in ruins. Expect to walk a long, steep hill, and bring water.

GO OUTSIDE

July Full Moon Hike 10 p.m.-midnight The full moon is actually July 5, and is known as a Full Buck Moon, Thunder Moon, Hay Moon or Wort Moon. But July 3 is close enough! Meet at the Trail 1 Parking Lot for a rugged 2.3-mile hike. Bring good shoes, a hiking stick and a red

Of all the things commonly known about Andy Warhol — former commercial artist, compulsive collector, wig wearer — I have to admit I A COLORFUL REVELATION didn’t know he was devoutly religious. Turns out he was a lifelong Catholic. The Speed is reopening with this revealing exhibition, the first of its kind to examine Warhol’s art through his faith. With over 150 objects from the permanent collection of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it is the largest show devoted to Warhol in this region. The state’s Healthy at Work guidelines apply to all visitors.

As a way to say thank you, the Speed is offering free admission for all front-line healthcare workers for one year. —Jo Anne Triplett

A Full Buck Moon.

FRIDAY, JULY 3

‘Finding Black Boy Joy’ — Actors Theatre Direct Facebook Live | Free | 7 p.m.

Art always is important in major social movements, and poetry is one of the most powerful art forms. That is why now is a critical time for poets such as Lance G. POETRY Newman, II to be performing their works. Newman hosts performers Isiah Fish, Nipsey Green, David Moore and DeepSea Rice in this “exploration into the nature of existing in this nation as a black man.” —LEO ‘The Last Supper’ by Andy Warhol. | Screen print and colored graphic paper college on HMP paper.

TUESDAY, JULY 7

Excelerate Workshop: Ally, Advocate Or Accomplice?

Zoom | ypal.org/events | Free | 8:20-10:30 a.m.

Want to be a better ally for social justice? Want to be better at identifying racism, sexism or “a host of ‘-ism’s”… or make sure that you aren’t BE PART OF THE SOLUTION inadvertently perpetuating hurtful language and social injustices? Join for this free workshop, a collaboration between the Young Professionals Association of Louisville and the Louisville Urban League Young Professionals, to better understand what constitutes being an ally, advocate or accomplice. If you would like to ask a question, find a link to submit your question ahead of time on the website above. —LEO

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FOOD & DRINK

RECOMMENDED

bar Vetti’s cacio e pepe, a classic Roman dish, blankets al dente rigatoni with earthy Pecorino cheese and deliciously floral and spicy coarse-ground black pepper.

BAR VETTI’S FARE STILL DELIGHTS IN ITS NEW SPACE

By Robin Garr | LouisvilleHotBytes.com I HATE MOVING. I can’t imagine that anybody would really like the sorting, culling, boxing, shifting, trucking and heavy lifting that comes with a move. Now, imagine moving during a pandemic, with masks and serious social distancing in a play, and you’ll have some idea what it must have been like for bar Vetti last month.

When bar Vetti opened in the landmark 800 Building in October 2017, it almost immediately became a victim of its own success: With room for 50 diners in its tiny room, it had no place to grow.

So, a move seemed almost inevitable, and then executive chef and partner Andrew McCabe announced last January that bar Vetti was heading for a new space in the AC Hotel by Marriott Louisville Downtown in NuLu, which would nearly double the restaurant’s space from 1,700 to 3,300 square feet.

The arrival of the pandemic a couple of months later couldn’t have helped. Nevertheless, bar Vetti hit its late-spring target, opening in NuLu on June 10.

I love bar Vetti and couldn’t wait to try it again. I certainly didn’t expect its casual Italian style to change, but one excuse is as good as another, right? It’s open only for curbside pickup right now (Wednesdays through Saturdays from 4 to 9 p.m.). That suits me while this pandemic continues, so I quickly found my way to its online ordering page. (Please note that bar Vetti has briefly

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Citrus-marinated red beets with chopped pistachios, black pepper, ricotta and olive oil makes a tempting starter at bar Vetti. | PHOTOS BY ROBIN GARR.

suspended carryout and online ordering while it prepares to open the dining room with a new menu. Watch for online ordering to return the week of July 6.)

The online menu is simple and easy to use, and it still features many of bar Vetti’s familiar dishes from its bill of fare in the old quarters: a variety of Italian dishes with plenty of pasta and pizza. It’s likely to change a bit as it settles into the new place, but I don’t expect a major shift.

At the top of the page you click boxes to let them know how many sets of disposable utensils you wish, if any, and, in a creative twist, describe your car so they can easily find you at the curb.

Then, click your way through the details, which include brief descriptions and iconsize photos of about 20 dishes, starting with a tall glass of cold brew iced coffee ($3) and moving on through a half-dozen soups, salads and breadsticks to three sandwiches, four pasta entrées, seven pizzas and, for dessert, cinnamon sticks ($7).

Some of the highlights include a smashed meatball burger ($13) featuring a pair of Indiana 3D Valley Farm beef meatballs on a potato bun with red sauce, mozzarella, Parmesan and pickled peppers. In a convenient touch, once you have chosen an item from the menu, you’re offered a variety of ways to tweak the dish: No cheese, no pickled peppers, extra pickled peppers (50 cents), extra meatball ($3) and extra cheese. Wor-

Our order came out within three minutes after we pulled up to the curb in front of bar Vetti’s new quarters in the AC Nulu Hotel.

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Bearing the red, white, and green colors of the Italian flag, bar Vetti’s excellent Margherita pizza is a good rendition of the Neapolitan tradition.

ried about allergies to wheat, nuts, shellfish or dairy? Check the blocks, and they’ve got you covered.

The justly popular eggplant Parm sandwich, a meatless option ($10) loads crispy fried eggplant, red sauce, mozzarella, Parmesan and pickled peppers on a potato bun.

The online system offered us a 2 p.m.

Saturday pickup time. We rolled up at 1:47, parked out front, called in and our food came out right on top of the hour. I would have liked it if our server had worn a mask, but, then, I guess we couldn’t have enjoyed her friendly smile as she dropped our pizza box and brown bag on the back seat.

We raced home, tore open the bag — kudos for neat packaging that kept everything in good shape — and got the dishes plated and ready to eat within 20 minutes of picking it up. That wasn’t fast enough to keep everything hot, but on a sizzling summer afternoon that wasn’t a big deal.

Beets and ricotta ($9) made an exceptional starter. Cool cubes of red beet, cooked just to tenderness, had been soaked in a zippy, citrus marinade, dusted with crushed pistachios and kicked up with mint leaves and several grinds of good black pepper.

Creamy house-made buttermilk ricotta and fruity, green olive oil, packed separately, turned it into a luxurious delight.

Cacio e pepe ($15), a classic Roman

pasta dish, was made very well. A generous portion, enough for leftovers, was built on short, fat rigatoni cooked perfectly al dente.

The pasta was coated with a rich, creamy sauce of earthy Pecorino cheese melted with tangy, buttermilk whey, then dusted with coarse grains of good black pepper that burst on the palate with floral, bright, sharp and spicy flavor blasts that play in concert with the cheese.

Like cacio e pepe, the traditional Neapolitan margherita pizza ($12) is a simple dish that requires care to make it perfect. bar Vetti’s rendition hits the mark, with a thin but chewy crust showing good wheat flavor that reminds me of Italian artisanal bread.

Like the original, named after Italy’s late19th century queen, it bears the red, white and green colors of the Italian flag with light, subtle, but appealing tomato sauce under a thin blanket of melted mozzarella and grated Parmesan, scattered with small leaves of fresh basil.

Our hearty Italian meal came to $38.16, and I added a $10 pandemic tip. •

BAR VETTI AC Hotel 727 E. Market St. 883-3331 barvetti.com

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | PODCAST

‘THE HUMANITY ARCHIVE’ BREATHES LIFE INTO HISTORY JERMAINE FOWLER’S PODCAST IS EVOCATIVE AND IMPACTFUL

By Scott Recker | leo@leoweekly.com THE HISTORY we learn in school tends to be some combination of boring and bullshit, an extremely narrow, robotic and softened look at nuanced, and often brutal, time frames and situations. But, there are also a lot of great resources and historians out there. For instance, Jermaine Fowler, through his project “The Humanity Archive,” aims to create comprehensive and accurate portraits of the people who are underrepresented or mischaracterized in history but who had big impacts or implications in our collective past. Through podcasts and complimentary articles, the 36-year-old Louisville native dives deeply and passionately into the stories of people such as Ida B. Wells and Benjamin Banneker, and he recommends reading lists of books on such topics as what America looked like before it was settled by Europeans and what that change actually looked like.

“Most of the stories that I tell, the standard that I’m going for is the marginalized, the stories that weren’t told as much, or the stories that were told, but from a different angle,” Fowler said. “A lot of times I’m telling the stories of Black people because I see a gap in the textbooks toward those stories. You get the same narrative over and over again. So, I’m trying to tell stories of people who I think should be uplifted.”

All of his content is free via his website, thehumanityarchive.com, with bonus material available through an associated Patreon subscription, which starts at $5 a month.

The podcast is the project’s highlight, as he nails a well-researched, scripted storytelling style in a thoughtful, exciting way. The first season features Katsushika Hokusai, Crispus Attucks, Pocahontas, Martin Luther King Jr., Socrates and others. The second season is scheduled to arrive in July and will focus on the West African, medievalera Mali Empire. The podcast can be streamed at his website and is also available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and other streaming services.

To prepare for each episode, Fowler reads several books on the subject, pulling the most fascinating and under-the-radar facts, creating an evocative and electric case study. But the most compelling aspect of each piece is that his subjects are portrayed as more than historical footnotes — his writing makes the stories vivid, impactful and interesting.

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“We get a lot of broad outlines in the history books and school, but actually walk in a person’s shoes, to walk that mile, we don’t actually get that,” Fowler said.

“So, to me, as someone passionate about storytelling, I’m trying to bring forth the tradition of storytelling, and not just textbook storytelling, but actually that richness and detail that people love in oral story traditions, I’m trying to tell their stories, and bring that pathos and passion and create a sense of empathy and sympathy and humanity to the people whose stories I’m telling.”

At a young age, Fowler was initially drawn into history by the glamour, prestige and mystery surrounding the ancient world and its wonders, such as the pyramids. He went to Butler Traditional High School, before studying architecture and business at Western Kentucky University. Fowler, who lives with his wife and two kids in South Louisville, works full time in business management, but his itch to explore history came back, and he slowly started up “The Humanity Archive.” Recently, Fowler’s been pouring more and more time into the project, to where it’s so popular that Vanity Fair recognized it as one of “Eight Podcasts to Deepen Your Knowledge of Black History.”

Fowler said he sees history as not only something that adults should dig into but also as an important lesson for every upand-coming generation.

“You have people throughout history that have made different choices and some

Jermaine Fowler.

of those choices have been for the betterment of humanity and some of them have been for the worse of humanity,” Fowler said. “To be able to look at history and all of its fullness and all of its richness — and not sugar coating it, to be able to see the good and the bad — then I think it allows children to make better choices.”

“The Humanity Archive” has caught the attention of Mick Sullivan, manager of youth and family programs at the Frazier History Museum and the host of the local history podcast “The Past And The Curious.” Sullivan said that Fowler does a nice job of using primary sources to build the story, and he praised him for his ability to offer space for reflection on what these people and time periods truly mean.

“It’s not just like, ‘Here are the facts,’” Sullivan said. “It’s not just biography. It’s these are circumstances, these are situations and these are questions that we should be asking. You should be asking these to yourselves, and I should be asking these to myself.”

History is a road map of how and why we got to where we are, and the past has a lot to say about contemporary society in

general, which Fowler is good at quantifying. He can seamlessly connect the dots between something that happened more than a century ago to a pressing issue today.

In his podcast on journalist, educator and civil rights leader Ida B. Wells, there’s a part toward the end, as he’s wrapping up the story, where he connects Wells’ antilynching activism to the current moment: “I think it’s extremely relevant in the modern day when the urban, racialized police forces still act as the ghost of lynching’s past,” Fowler says in the episode.

But teaching the past, he says, can change the future.

“We’re trapped in history and history is also trapped in us,” Fowler said. “With that same sentiment, with the police force, for example — to know that the legacy of the police force is slave catchers, it was to protect property of white communities. That is the tradition of the police, and I think that is still trapped in the police department.

Unless we deal with that, unless we’re honest about that, and have those hard and truthful conversations, there’s no way that you can change your police department.” •

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SAVAGE LOVE

By Dan Savage | mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage

KINKED GAYS

Q: I have a question. I’m a gay man in a relationship and we’re both really happy since we met a year ago. We’re “open” in the sense that he wants the option to be intimate with someone else if a connection happens and in turn he said he would be supportive of me being involved in my kinks.

But I haven’t done anything yet out of fear.

I’m not afraid of my kinks. I’m worried that if I ask to go do something kinky it will ruin our relationship. I don’t think he was bluffing when he said it was okay for me to explore my kinks with other guys but it worries me. I tend to repress the kink part of my sexuality and I’m worried that him knowing I want to act on it will cause issues. My boyfriend and I are so balanced but in the kink aspects of my life I’m a submissive and need to engage in power exchange with someone. I miss being able to express these things and it feels like there’s a void in my life. That might sound silly, but it’s true. I think repressing them is actually taking a toll on my mental health. Any advice?

Guy’s Abandoned Yearnings Subtly Undermining Bond If your boyfriend is bluffing, GAYSUB, you wanna know that sooner rather than later.

Your still-relatively-new-ish boyfriend gave you permission to act on your kinks at the same time he asked your permission to fuck someone else. You gave him your okay and I assume you meant it, GAYSUB; you meant it when you told him he could, if and when “a connection happens,” go ahead and fuck the dude. Seeing as he took your “yes” for an answer where his “connections” are concerned, GAYSUB, I think you should take his “yes” for an answer where your kinks are concerned. So go find some hot Dom you wanna submit to and let your boyfriend know you’re gonna get your kink on. If it turns out your boyfriend was lying to you—if he’s one of those people who wants to be free to play with others (which is why he got your okay) but doesn’t want his partner playing with others (and the okay he gave you was insincere)—it’s better to find that out twelve short months into this relationship than to find it out ten years, a mortgage, one kid, and two dogs into this relationship.

And what you describe about the void you feel is understandable to anyone with kinks, GAYSUB, and even vanilla people can understand if they think about it for

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even a moment. (That vanilla stuff you enjoy, vanilla people? Imagine never being able to any of it. See?) Your kinks are an intrinsic aspect of your sexuality and repressing them—not having any way to explore or express them—does take an emotional toll.

It can also breed resentment if your partner is the reason you can’t explore or express them. Which means if your boyfriend wants you to be happy and wants you to be a good boyfriend to him, then you need to have the freedom to be who you are. For some kinky people porn is enough of an outlet, GAYSUB, but most kinky people want actual experiences.

Often a vanilla partner is willing and able to meet a kinky partner’s needs and that’s great. But sometimes a vanilla partner can’t do it or is incapable of faking it or does it poorly on purpose so they won’t be asked to do it again. And for some kinksters the awareness you’re being indulged makes it impossible for to get into the right subby headspace. If either is the case, you’ll have to outsource these desires to fill that void.

If your boyfriend gives you the okay and has a little breakdown after you get home—if it dredges up some unexpected feelings (and you should expect that it will dredge up some unexpected feelings (so expect those unexpected feelings)))—and needs some reassurance, that’s fine. Answer any questions he has and let him know you’re not going anywhere; indeed, the fact that you don’t have to choose between him and your kinks makes you far less likely to end this relationship. (Sometimes people who weren’t even in the dungeon during the scene need a little aftercare too.) But if you’re careful not to neglect your boyfriend sexually or emotionally and your kinky dates are just an occasional thing and your boyfriend keeps having great, big, dramatic meltdowns, GAYSUB, then that’s a bad sign.

If he punishes you with drama every time he gives you his okay to play with someone else then he’s hoping you’ll decide to stop seeking these experiences out because the emotional price is too great. You won’t be able to remain in this relationship if that’s what winds up happening, GAYSUB, so you’re going to wanna act on your kinks at least a half a dozen times before you get a dog or a mortgage.

Q:My new boyfriend just opened up to me about his kinks. Nothing crazy: just bondage and humiliation. While he usu-

ally meets and dates guys off kinky dating sites we met “the old fashioned way” a few months before COVID-19 slammed us here in Chicago: at a potluck dinner party thrown by a mutual straight lady friend.

Your name came up during the conversation about his interests: he told me he was taking your advice and “laying his kink cards on the table” before I had made too much of an emotional commitment. What’s interesting to me, Dan, is how often this happens. My boyfriend is easily the fourth guy I’ve dated in the last few years who laid down the exact same kink cards: wants to be tied up, wants to be called names, wants to be hurt. I’m learning to tie knots and getting better at calling him names when we have sex and I actually really enjoying spanking him. But I was talking with a friend—our straight lady mutual (with the boyfriend’s okay!)—and she told me she’s never had a straight guy open up to her about wanting to be tied up abused. Are gay guys just kinkier?

Talking Over Perversions I have a theory…

When we’re boys… before we’re ready to come out… we’re suddenly attracted to other boy. And that’s something we usually feel pretty panicked about. It would be nice that first same-sex crush was something a boy could experience without feelings of dread or terror, TOP, but that’s not how it works for most of us. We’re keenly aware that should the object of our desire realize it—if the boy we’re attracted realizes what we’re feeling, if we give ourselves away with a stray look—the odds of that boy reacting badly or even violently are high. Even if you think the boy might not react violently, even if you suspect the boy you’re crushing on might be gay himself, the stakes are too high to risk making any sort of move. So we stew with feelings of lust and fear.

Sexual desire can make anyone feel fearful and powerless—we’re literally powerless to control these feelings (while we can and must control how we act on these feelings)— but desire and fear are stirred together for us gay boys to much greater degree than they are for straight boys. We fear being found out, we fear being called names, we fear being outed, we fear being physically hurt. And the person we fear most is the person we have a crush on. A significant number of gay guys wind up imprinting on that heady and very confusing mix of desire and fear. The erotic imaginations of guys like your boyfriend seize on those fears and eroticize them. And then, in adulthood, your boyfriend want to re-experience those feelings, that heady mix of desire and fear, with a loving partner he trusts. The gay boy who feared being hurt by the person he

was attracted to becomes the gay man who wants to be hurt—in a limited, controlled, consensual and safe way—by the man he’s with.

On the Savage Lovecast: would you choose to live in...Kansas? mail@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage. www.savagelovecast.com

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