Louisville Magazine

07/09/2023

We are collaborating with KERTIS Creative and are looking for photographers for the third-annual edition of “Constellations,” a photo book of community connections. Check out the flyer for more info.https://www.louisville.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Louisville-Magazine-Call-to-Photographers-2023.pdf

29/08/2023

Louisville Magazine, in collaboration with Q***r Kentucky, is asking Louisville’s LGBTQ+ communities: Where do you feel most at home? Find that question and more at this interview: https://www.louisville.com/queer-kentucky-interview.

24/08/2023

Louisville Magazine, in collaboration with Q***r Kentucky, is asking Louisville’s LGBTQ+ communities: Where do you feel most at home? Find that question and more at this interview :

Louisville Magazine x Q***r Kentucky Louisville Magazine, in collaboration with Q***r Kentucky, is asking Louisville’s LGBTQ+ communities: Where do you feel most at home? Below, you’ll find that question and a few more. You don’t have to answer all of them but certainly can. We’re hoping at ...

24/02/2023

Guest post from the Louisville Story Program: "The Rev. Charles Elliott Jr. of King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church on 1620 Anderson St. baptizing a congregant in the Ohio River. The Rev. Elliott has been pastor of King Solomon for 61 years and continues to conduct river baptisms to this day."

The Louisville Story Program was honored to guest-edit the "Defender" special edition issue of the Louisville Magazine that came out in November 2022. The issue highlights the recently-digitized Frank Stanley Sr collection of photographs from the legendary Black newspaper The Louisville Defender.

31/01/2023

Michael Dorsey, Cheryl Phillips and Dwight Phillips shovel snow.

Photographer uncredited.

Guest post from Louisville Story Program: We were honored to guest-edit the special issue of the Louisville Magazine that highlights the recently-digitized Frank Stanley Sr collection of photographs from the legendary Black newspaper The Louisville Defender. A special event this Thursday, February 2nd, 6:00 p.m. at the Western Library will also showcase how library patrons can access a recently-released digital archive of the newspaper as well. Learn more at the Louisville Story Program's page.

20/01/2023

Guest post from the Louisville Story Program: "The photojournalist is a visual griot, a messenger of one's time... a visionary with a camera and the creator of the future." --Bud Dorsey (1941-2021)

Pictured: Barbara P. Gordon and Harold D. Carter. Photographer uncredited.

The photographs throughout the "Defender" special edition issue of the Louisville Magazine are largely uncredited. Most do not have any captions. If you recognize any of the people, places or events depicted in the photographs, the Louisville Story Program wants to hear from you. You can call us at (502) 583-3326 or email us at [email protected].

17/01/2023

Guest post from the Louisville Story Program: All of the Louisville Defender photographs in the Frank Stanley Sr. Collection, including those in the magazine, are the work of Black photographers who worked on staff or as contractors. Unfortunately, most of the photographs in the collection include no photographer attribution and no date. Each of these photographs was produced despite limited resources. The Defender could not afford to purchase as much film for its photographers as the Courier-Journal could, so the photographers had to make each shot count.

If you recognize any of the people, places, or events depicted in the photographs in the issue, the Louisville Story Program would love to hear from you. You can call us at (502) 583-3326 or email us at [email protected].

13/01/2023

This is a guest post from the Louisville Story Program. We were honored to guest-edit a special issue of Louisville Magazine that features photographs from the Louisville Defender collection.

Charles W. Anderson (1907-1960) on the steps of Jefferson County Courthouse. Anderson was admitted to the Kentucky Bar in 1933, and in 1935 was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives, making him the first Black legislator in Kentucky and in the South since Reconstruction. He served in the legislature from 1936 to 1946 and is credited with a number of early civil rights measures, including the Anderson-Mayer State Aid Act, which provided $7,500 annually for African Americans to attend out-of-state colleges because Kentucky enforced higher-education segregation laws. He also passed bills allowing married women to teach, providing funds to Black students who were forced to travel outside of their county to attend segregated schools, and repealing the state's public hanging law. In 1946, Anderson was selected as assistant Commonwealth attorney for Jefferson County, the highest judicial position held by an African American in the South at the time. In 1959, President Eisenhower appointed him as an alternate delegate to the United Nations. He died tragically in 1960 when his car was struck by a passenger train.

10/01/2023

Hello from the Louisville Story Program! We are guest-posting over the next couple of weeks to share more photos from this beautiful collaboration with Louisville Magazine.

The Louisville Story Program partnered with the University of Louisville Photographic Archives and Louisville Magazine to develop this special issue that celebrates the legacy of the Defender. The Louisville Defender is Louisville's iconic weekly Black newspaper. For almost 90 years, it has been there to cover issues and topics of concern to Louisville's Black community.

Forty years ago, Vivian Stanley, widow of longtime Louisville Defender publisher Frank Stanley Sr., donated Mr. Stanley's papers to the University of Louisville Archives & Special Collections to be preserved and made available to the public forever. His papers included over 16,000 photographs, mostly by Defender photographers. They had never been digitized, so we raised some money and hired a photo archivist at the University of Louisville to spend over a year digitizing the entire collection. UofL will eventually make the massive collection available in their online digital collections so that anyone with an internet connection can look through the photos for free.

To start, we bring you the cover of this issue. Louisville Defender photographer Willie Dix Jr. (1917-1984) was a World War II marine veteran and subsequently worked as a supervisor at the Army Field Printing Plant Photo Lab at Fort Knox. He also served as grand lodge photographer for Prince Hall Masonic Lodge at 28th and Dumesnil streets. It is likely that Mr. Dix took more photos for the Defender over the course of his career than any other photographer in the history of the newspaper. He was a resident of Newburg.

08/12/2022

Jacob Munoz, who covers business and development at WFPL News, co-wrote the story “Supply in Demand” (page 68).
In one word, home is ＿＿＿＿.
"Freedom.”
This issue of Louisville mag done in collaboration with Louisville Public Media.

07/12/2022

We interviewed several Louisvillians and these were their responses. Head to our website for the full interviews. This issue done in collab w/Louisville Public Media.

06/12/2022

Josh Moss is editor of Louisville Magazine.
He lives, in the words of his kindergartener, “super-duper close to the zoo. Can we go there?”

In one word, home is?
"Naps.”

This issue of Louisville mag done in collab w/Louisville Public Media.

05/12/2022

Jenni Laidman wrote the story “‘Put a Dent in the Universe’”.
What does “home” mean to you?
"Home is wherever Joey the Husband and Phoebe the Poodle are.”
This issue of Louisville mag done in collab w/Louisville Public Media.

02/12/2022

We interviewed several Louisvillians and these were their responses! To read the full interviews, head to our website.
What do YOU think should be Louisville's theme song?
(This issue of Louisville mag done in collaboration with )

01/12/2022

Suhas Kulkarni helped recruit “new Americans” (people not originally from this country) to be interviewed for this issue.
How has your relationship with your home changed since March 2020?
"It has become way more uneasy, not only because of what happened to Breonna Taylor, but because of the in-your-face xenophobia our country has experienced.”
This issue of Louisville mag was made in collaboration w/Louisville Public Media.

28/11/2022

We interviewed several Louisvillians and these are their responses! For the full interviews, head to our website.
Which Louisville business do you miss most?
(This issue made in collaboration with Louisville Public Media.)

25/11/2022

Did you know that you too can have your voice heard by heading over to the web and answering our interview questions?! It only takes a few moments!
https://www.louisville.com/homeinterview
This issue made in collaboration w/Louisville Public Media.

Home Is . March 13, 2020, the day the pandemic forced Louisville into lockdown, was the same day Louisville police killed Breonna Taylor in her own home. So much about our city has changed since March 2020. With that in mind, Louisville Magazine is partnering with Louisville Public M...

24/11/2022

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at Louisville mag. Thank you for being here!