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Musician Robert Key tells how Paul Robeson is the only African American who was ever allowed to sing at the Pendennis Club. The Club was well known for its restrictive policy toward African Americans, which extended in many ways into its…

Lattimore Cole discusses his late father, I. Willis Cole, and his paper, The Louisville Defender. The Defender had a close relationship with the Lincoln Insurance Company, which the elder Cole was on the Board.

Louisville newspaperman and political activist William Ealy discusses A.D. Porter's early role in the Lincoln Party and how that party nominated Porter to run for mayor.

John and Murray Atkins Walls talk about early efforts to integrate the Louisville Free Public Library. In this clip, Murray tells of an event in December 1941 where demonstrators were permitted enter the library.

color photo taken April 2015

NIA Center, 2900 W. Broadway, whose name comes from the Swahili word for “purpose.” It offerings include job training and career placement services and programs to encourage new business ideas, and it’s also a TARC depot.

Catholic Enrichment Center, 3146 W. Broadway, offering a Dare to Care food bank and providing activities for youth and seniors, operated by the Archdiocese of Louisville.

Braden Center, 3208 W. Broadway, a meeting place and headquarters for social justice organizations.

Muhammad Ali’s childhood home, 3302 Grand Ave., where Cassius and Odetta Clay reared the boxer and his younger brother.

“Parkland Rising,” a two-story mural featuring the mythological phoenix bird, which rises from the ashes, at 3201 Greenwood Ave., the scene of fatal shootings in May 2011.