Black History, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship in Louisville
Below is a selection of the many Black-led initiatives and institutions in Louisville, historic and new. We invite you to explore their digital spaces and, if possible, to donate.
Pocket Change, which opened in the Butchertown neighborhood in November 2020, provides a storefront for a variety of Black-owned businesses art, apparel, food, jewelry, and more and also offers free business workshops for emerging Black entrepreneurs. It is part of Change Today, Change Tomorrow, an organization “devoted to eradicating barriers that plague the Black community in Education, Food Justice and Public Health.” Visitors can support Pocket Change by purchasing items on their Amazon wishlist, which includes tables, price tags, and sign holders.
The (Un)Known Project retraces journeys of Kentucky s slaves Follow Us
Question of the Day By ANDRE TORAN and Louisville Courier-Journal - Associated Press - Sunday, February 28, 2021
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Fugitive slaves once stood on the banks of the Ohio River in Kentucky, gazing across its waters at the Indiana coastline and realizing that freedom was within a mile.
Some jumped in and swam across, some waited patiently, or fearfully, for conductors of the Underground Railroad to signal when it was safe to cross. Some never made it at all.
Their faces, their stories, the outcome of their crossing often unknown, forgotten by history, the outcome of their tales seemingly unimportant, whether they made it safely into the free state of Indiana or if they were captured by slave catchers and returned to their masters in Kentucky and throughout the South.
Fugitive slaves once stood on the banks of the Ohio River in Kentucky, gazing across its waters at the Indiana coastline and realizing that freedom was within a mile.
Some jumped in and swam across, some waited patiently, or fearfully, for conductors of the Underground Railroad to signal when it was safe to cross. Some never made it at all.
Their faces, their stories, the outcome of their crossing often unknown, forgotten by history, the outcome of their tales seemingly unimportant, whether they made it safely into the free state of Indiana or if they were captured by slave catchers and returned to their masters in Kentucky and throughout the South.