Standing outside the Louisville Metropolitan Hall, Aminata “Amina” Seck described the eerie loneliness of being kept in isolation during her two-month detention while she renewed her student visa. When she first approached the podium at a press conference on Oct. 7, the Kentucky State University basketball star from Senegal grabbed her own arm, self-soothing. Her […]
Kentucky State University
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A Financial Crisis Could Upend Kentucky’s Only Public HBCU
Jamya Chenault is finishing her third year as a mass communications major at Kentucky State University, but the state legislature has her worried about what will happen if the state takes control. In March, a plan was unveiled in the Kentucky General Assembly that would shave Kentucky State’s academic offerings and assign it a new […]
