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The community teams together to celebrate Pride.

Murray community celebrates Pride

Gray Hawkins, Staff Writer September 23, 2024

Murray residents enjoyed a fun-filled day of LGBTQ+ pride festivities on Saturday, Sept. 21. Charlie Heeke, vice president of the Murray KY Pride board,...

Murray's pride festival begins tonight and will host events throughout the weekend.

Murray pride festival kicks off

Gray Hawkins, Staff Writer September 20, 2024

The Murray Pride festival kicks off tonight at 6 p.m., Corvette Lanes will host a family bowling night at 1415 Main St.  The festivities will resume...

Our view: Drag artists are the new targets of GOP fearmongering

Our view: Drag artists are the new targets of GOP fearmongering

Will Groves, Opinion Editor March 2, 2023

So many issues are plaguing Kentucky during this legislative session. We are experiencing an opioid crisis and a teacher shortage, yet the Kentucky GOP...

(Graphic courtesy of Murray KY Pride)

Pride parade returns to Murray

June 22, 2021

Erinn Finley Contributing Writer [email protected] Pride celebrations are back after being put on pause by the COVID-19 pandemic.  Murray...

Pride events can be found on murraystate.edu by searching “LGBT Programming” in the search bar. (Photo courtesy of Murray State Alliance)

Alliance celebrates LGBTQ+ Pride in March

March 11, 2021

Mason Galemore Contributing Writer [email protected] The Murray State University Alliance has planned many special events in which students...

Crowds gather around the counter protest. Megan Reynolds/The News

Students rally together in counter protest

October 8, 2019

https://youtu.be/Ei8zmZX6sP0 Megan Reynolds Editor-in-Chief [email protected] MURRAY, KY. - Students rallied in a counter protest...

Respect and consideration

Respect and consideration

October 16, 2015

Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor Stubbornness is exhausting. Defying change is, often, pointless. An existence based solely on closed-minded...

Carly Besser
Opinion Editor

America: Not above hardships of humanity

October 17, 2014

Beginning at birth, Americans grow up with the idea that there is no better place to live. We are told that America is the cornucopia of education, wealth...

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