By Christopher Harris
Commonwealth Journal May 8, 2021
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Kathy Townsend (far left) and JaKaye Garth (in the foreground), seen speaking here at this yearâs Martin Luther King, Jr. Day event in Somerset, are two of the founders of the Lake Cumberland Diversity Council, along with Rikiyah Pryor. File
In his 1963 commencement address at American University, the late President John F. Kennedy famously said, âIf we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.â
Here in Somerset â thanks to the tumultuous summer of 2020 â local people are working on making this community at least, if not the world itself, safer for its own diversity to flourish.