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Good Question: What s the story behind the street on Lexinton s northside called Soup Perkins Alley?

Good Question: What s the story behind the street on Lexinton s northside called Soup Perkins Alley?
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Artist Lorin Chasar illustrates Black history connected to the Kentucky Derby

Illustrator Lorin Chasar was surprised to know Black jockeys were involved in the inception of the Kentucky Derby. Writer Sultan Zeshan told her about

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How African-Americans disappeared from the Kentucky Derby

In the 19th century, when horse racing was America’s most popular sport, former slaves populated the ranks of jockeys and trainers, and black men won more than half of the first 25 runnings of the Kentucky Derby until the 1890s, when Jim Crow laws destroyed gains black people had made since emancipation, and they ended up losing their jobs.

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