While the election news was coming in hot and heavy throughout the state as well as locally on Tuesday night, a Madison County college was featured on national television.
When you think of Berea College, the word "groundbreaking" might come to mind. The school was the first interracial and coeducational institution in the south, and since 1892, it's been tuition-free.
Much has been written on the Irish Diaspora in the United States and every Irish person is familiar with the searing images of a dispossessed people having to leave this island due to the Great Hunger.
Boone Tavern Hotel in Kentucky: Hotel History 1855
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Boone Tavern Hotel is owned by Berea College – first college in the southern US to be coeducational and racially integrated.
Muhammed Ali’s father, Marcellus Clay, named his son for the White Kentucky anti-slavery crusader, Cassius Marcellus Clay, one Berea College’s founders.
In 1904, the Kentucky state legislature passed the “Day Law” prohibiting the education of Black and White students together.
The Boone Tavern Hotel is owned by Berea College and operated with student workers from the College Labor Program. Students earn money for books, room and board but pay no tuition (valued at $25,500 per year), thanks to the generosity of donors who support Berea College’s mission of providing a free high quality education for students primarily from Appalachia who have high academic potential and limited financial resources.