Berry Craig
LATEST ARTICLES BY Berry Craig
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Amid book bans and anti-CRT legislation, a Kentucky history teacher remembers Jim Crow
February 3, 2022I don’t remember the white kid’s name. But I remember what he said to me after my community college Kentucky history class one day: “My parents or grandparents never told me about any of this. We...
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McConnell and GOP hypocritically embrace King while they destroy voting rights
January 19, 2022McConnell and McCarthy—like the other Republicans trying to look like fans of King, are leaders in the GOP’s decades-old effort to roll back voting rights.
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With workers’ and voting rights in the balance, labor campaigns against filibuster
January 18, 2022Mitch McConnell and the other heirs of Jim Crow are weakening the foundations of our democracy.
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Kentucky Republicans ignore people’s needs, push anti-Critical Race Theory bills instead
January 7, 2022If you polled Kentucky voters on what the General Assembly should focus on, almost all of them would say aiding tornado-ravaged communities and helping protect them against the uber-contagious COVID-19 omicron variant.
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Kentucky ‘Rock of Labor’ memorial survives tornado, symbolizing workers’ resolve
December 22, 2021Like the workers it remembers, Mayfield's 'Rock of Labor' stands strong.
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Republican glorification of gun violence is the real ‘war on Christmas’
December 7, 2021Nazis were notorious for perverting Christmas for violent ends, but Kentucky GOP Rep. Thomas Massie is giving the Hitler-worshippers a run for their money.
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Right wing steers country toward white supremacy and dictatorship
December 1, 2021Kentucky historian sees this as a serious and frightening matter.
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Democrat Booker: ‘Rand Paul doesn’t know a damn thing about our struggles’
October 21, 2021Booker seems to be pretty soft-spoken and a really nice guy. But he's proving to be anything but a pushover, one-two punching Paul and Sen. Mitch McConnell.
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