In this series – “A Community Divided” – we are taking a multi-faceted approach to telling the stories of controversy that surround the Confederate monument that stands on the lawn of the …
Driving up to the Court Square the evening of July 15, 2020, my nerves were already frayed. Less than two months earlier, in Paducah, I’d seen a small cloud of …
Murray has always been my home, and I imagine that Murray will continue to be my home in the future, no matter where I am. When I moved away for college, l took pride …
MURRAY – Former Murray State University assistant football coach, Sherman Neal II returns to Murray for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day screening of the documentary …
“Ghosts of a Lost Cause” chronicles the 2020 effort to relocate the Confederate monument from the grounds of the Calloway County Courthouse and the community conflict that followed. …
Murray State University historian Brian Clardy said that Confederate monuments are the most visible symbol of the Lost Cause myth, which holds that slaves were …
Murray’s controversial court square Confederate monument “represents a distorted, bloody and awful past that we cannot forget but should not celebrate,” said …
Documents, such as the 124-page report from the Move the Monument Coalition, resolutions adopted by the Calloway County Fiscal Court and the Murray City Council related to the monument and several …
This section begins with a collection of correspondence to various Calloway County government officials as well as remarks made before the Calloway County Fiscal Court in 2020, …
This section begins with a collection of correspondence to various Calloway County government officials as well as remarks made before the Calloway County Fiscal Court in 2020, which the Sentinel …
This section begins with a collection of correspondence to various Calloway County government officials as well as remarks made before the Calloway County Fiscal Court in 2020, which the Sentinel …
This section begins with a collection of correspondence to various Calloway County government officials as well as remarks made before the Calloway County Fiscal Court in 2020, which the Sentinel …
My name is Blake Hughes and I'm a resident of Murray Kentucky. The Armenian Genocide Museum defines cultural genocide as "acts and measures undertaken to destroy nations’ or ethnic groups’ culture through spiritual, national, and cultural destruction." …
During the War for Southern Independence, and for half a Century afterwards, it was popular in the north to characterize that War as a "rebellion" against the lawful government. Folks …
Enclosed please find a copy of a resolution passed by the Murray City council at its meeting last night. This resolution requests that the Calloway County Fiscal …
Editor's note: What follows is an email chain forwarded to Judge-Executive Kenny Imes and Deputy Judge-Executive Gina Winchester on July 6, 2020, by Melissa Johnson. The initial email in the chain is …
I am a citizen of Calloway County and a mother of two, and I support the removal of the statue of Robert E. Lee that sits on our …
Thank you Judge Imes and members of the Fiscal Court for hearing me today. My name is Kevin Elliott. I live in Murray and am a professor of political science at Murray State*. I come today to …
Judge-Executive Kenny Imes: Mr. Neal did you wish to address the court? …