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Mary Ellen Britton (1855–1925) was an American physician, educator, suffragist, journalist and civil rights activist from Lexington, Kentucky.Britton was an original member of the Kentucky Negro Education Association, which formed in 1877.
The Wheels program, run through Lextran, provides door-to-door ride-sharing services for people with disabilities. Complaints about dropped and late rides have been steady since October 2022.
The new center will be in Shillito Park in south Fayette County.
Vanessa Gallman, a barrier-breaking journalist who helped steer Lexington’s conscience for more than two decades as the editorial page editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader, died Monday, Feb. 3 ...
Socially blind and deaf, it defends an intolerable system, a system that is the cause of much of the physical blindness and deafness which we are trying to prevent. [49] In 1912, Keller joined the Industrial Workers of the World (the IWW, known as the Wobblies), [44] saying that parliamentary socialism was "sinking in the political bog". She ...
Brucetown was an African-American neighborhood located in Lexington, Kentucky that was established in 1865. The community was formed by W. W. Bruce, who parceled and provided the land for his newly freed slaves, which had become employed by him for hemp manufacturing after the Civil War. [6]
A provider of transportation services for Fayette County residents with disabilities has been fined nearly $70,000 over the past two months for hundreds of missed and excessively late pick ups ...
Shirley "Shirl" Jennings (1940 – October 26, 2003) was one of only a few people in the world to regain his sight after lifelong blindness and was the inspiration for the character of Virgil Adamson in the movie At First Sight (1999) starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino.