✨🌎 International Equal Pay Day ✨🪙 As of 2024, women globally earned approximately 83 cents for every dollar earned by men, indicating a gender pay gap of 17%. Today serves as a reminder of the ongoing fight for pay equality. Source: www.equalpaytoday.org

Why September 15th? ✨ Hispanic Heritage Month. #HispanicHeritage #Septiembre #Hispanic #LatinAmericanDiaspora

Lake Cumberland Diversity Collective is now part of the Kroger Community Rewards program. Through this program, Kroger fundraises by donating a percentage to local nonprofit organizations. To enroll, visit www.kroger.com! ✨🛒✨ #Fundraising #Diversity

TONIGHT! This isn’t a one-week fix. Rebuilding—physically and emotionally—will take months, even years. And we need to be prepared for the long haul. This training is one small shift in making sure we support each other with empathy, skill, and intention—not just today, but for as long as it takes.

Memorial Day aka Decoration Day began with formerly enslaved people honoring 257 Union Soldiers buried in a Confederate prison camp. This Memorial Day, we recognize and grieve the lives lost in the military as well as all dead due to war. Books donated at Laker Laundry in Russell County, KY. #LCDC

We remember as to never forget the casualties, lives lost, and generations forever changed by extreme othering in fear and greed. Share a story and/or a name as we remember and reconcile together in the comment section below. #WorldWarII #Remembrance #Reconciliation #LCDC

#OTD in 1961, the first Freedom Riders began their journey to expose the brutal reality of segregation. Their nonviolent resistance sparked a national reckoning. Today, we are reminded that change often comes from ordinary people with extraordinary courage.

In turbulent times that call us all to stay awake in solidarity and remembrance, Lake Cumberland Diversity Collective (LCDC) honors the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. Let us vow to never forget. #YomHaShoah #HolocaustRemembranceDay #LCDC #LakeCumberland

“Our unity is our strength, and diversity is our power. We reject the myth of ‘us’ vs. ‘them.’ We are in this together.” — former Madam Vice President @kamalaharris.com ✨💖 #Diversity #LCDC

Access provides the possibility of inclusive spaces where diverse needs and interests are reflected and met. Access fosters critical thinking and different types of literacy development, such as media, financial, cultural, reading, and more. Tell Congress to show up for your library: ala.org/showup

If you're protesting this weekend, know your rights when interacting with law enforcement, including immigration agents.

✨We Need Diverse Books! ✨ Landscapes may be changing. Our need to learn, write, read, and experience the beauty of diversity in humanity has not! What’s on your bookshelf today and into the evening? #WeNeedDiverseBooks #LCDC #LakeCumberland

International Autism Acceptance Day! 🌍 Today and every day, let us accept, celebrate, integrate, and include the beauty in diversity of our Autistic community throughout the Lake Cumberland area and world. #AutismAcceptance #AutismDay #Neurodiversity #LCDC #LakeCumberland

#StPatricksDay #tdih Did you know that during the first winter of famine, 1846-47, as perhaps 400,000 Irish peasants starved, landlords exported grain, cattle, pigs, flour, eggs, poultry — food that could have prevented those deaths. #TeachOutsideTextbook www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/st...

Moving Beyond Susan and Elizabeth: The Complicated History of Woman Suffrage in Kentucky 🗓️ This Thursday, March 13th 🕠 5:30 pm ET 📍 Mellow Mushroom Somerset 2520 Monticello Street Somerset, KY 42503

US added to the global human rights watchlist due to declining civil liberties.

We continue the work towards a world where women and girls feel heard, seen, and empowered. 🌼 International Women’s Day! 🌸 #InternationalWomensDay #LCDC #LakeCumberland

Today serves as a reminder of the ongoing fight for pay equality. #EqualPayDay #LCDC #LakeCumberland

Let us toss and catch unity in diversity like Mardi Gras beads as we co-create a region of belonging for all! ⚜️🎭🎷⚜️ #MardiGras #LCDC #LakeCumberland

In times like these, we are reminded of the promise of zero discrimination in co-creating a region where all live and thrive in dignity and belonging. #ZeroDiscriminationDay #LCDC #LakeCumberland

Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.

Language goes beyond words—it is identity, culture, and connection. On this International Mother Language Day, let us celebrate and embrace the diversity of languages that connect us all. #MotherLanguageDay #LCDC #LakeCumberland

“Empowering Inclusion: Bridging Gaps for Social Justice.” #SocialJusticeDay #LCDC #LakeCumberland

This evening and day, we celebrate the life of Rosa Parks, who was born on February 4th in 1913. Through her resistance, we learn and remember the importance of nonviolence protesting and boycotting, which led to the Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses to be unconstitutional.

Today commemorates the signing of the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery in the United States. This day serves as a powerful reminder of the enduring fight for freedom, justice, and equality. #NationalFreedomDay #LCDC #LakeCumberland

Important dates to remember and recognize this February. Mark your calendar. Follow along for more posts and education. Black History Month; Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month; Low Vision Awareness Month #February #LCDC #Diversity #LakeCumberland

Gather around for a Lunar New Year storytime adventure 🐍📚🧧 #LunarNewYear #YearOfTheWoodSnake #LCDC #Wisdom #Creativity #Introspection

Celebrate the first day of the Lunar New Year with the Children’s Library and Lake Cumberland Diversity Collective on Wednesday, January 29th in the Pulaski County Public Library Community Rooms at 4:00pm ET. 🎊🐍🧧 #LunarNewYear #LakeCumberland

This International Holocaust Remembrance Day is an opportunity to reflect on the lives lost and legacies still enduring dehumanization and genocide. 🕯️ It is our collective responsibility to lean into loving bravery for all humanity through education and remembrance. #HolocaustRemembrance #LCDC

Join us as we usher in the Year of the Snake. 🐍✨🧧 Lunar Lion Dance, education, and a light meal by will be provided.