News & Commentary

We're celebrating Giving Tuesday 2021 by supporting partners throughout the state.

We've written to Louisville Metro Council and Mayor Fischer rejecting any proposals to increase policing, incarceration, or surveillance of our students. Students need support, not more police.

All Kentuckians deserve equitable access to resources to make the best reproductive decisions for themselves – whether that means continuing a pregnancy, seeking adoption, or accessing abortion care.

Addiction prevention, education, and drug enforcement activities typically receive funding from settlements with opioid manufacturers. The conversation about how and where to spend settlement funds has overlooked a vital demographic: the survivors of the opioid epidemic.

Saturday, March 13, 2021, marks the one-year anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s death. It wasn’t only the tragedy of a young and promising life stolen that moved Kentuckians to action from Hazard to Paducah; it was also the insult of injustice. 

Lawmakers are pushing two bills that would weaponize the criminal legal system to silence a population crying out for justice. Both House Bill 479 and Senate Bill 211 would be used to threaten protesters with excessive prosecution, deterring them from exercising their right to free speech.

We're calling on Fayette County Attorney Larry Roberts to drop charges against peaceful protesters.