KY Extension System: Coming Together for Racial Understanding

Author: Carla Jordan

Major Program: Facilitation Training

2020 started off as a year of perfect vision, full of promise and potential. During the first quarter, we’ve experienced many challenges and turmoil that caused us to focus more clearly. But as we focused, we saw both good and bad. We quickly recognized how we were able to get back to the basics of cooking, spending time with family, and focusing on self-care and self-improvement. Our vision became clear as to how and where we spent our time and energy mattered. Over the next few months, w

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Extension Comes Together for Racial Understanding

Author: Carla Jordan

Major Program: Facilitation Training

The Summer of 2020 as undoubtedly been one full of challenges, fear and hope. During this quarter over, as of 12/3/20, 14.2 million people have been diagnosed with COVID19. (Worst yet 278,918 have died (New York Times, 2020). Yet, it could not be clearer that to wear a mask or not has become politicized. On March 13, 2020 Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American woman, was fatally shot in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment, when white plainclothes officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankis

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