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Here is the full test of a statement issued by historian Emily Bingham and her aunt, Eleanor Bingham Miller, their family-owned newspapers track record on race. The family published The Courier Journal from 1918 until 1986, when it was purchased by Gannett.
Emily s father was Barry Bingham Jr., who was one of Eleanor s brothers. We are glad The CourierJournal is looking into its record covering Louisville s Black community. Our city is hurting badly, and it would be of great service to undertake a fully-documented historical assessment as the Kansas City Star has done. That paper’s editors wrote that if we can look squarely at the past, our history doesn’t have to own us.