Join the League of Women Voters' Book Club. Everyone is welcome, even if you haven’t read the book. There is sure to be interesting discussion and will leave learning something new! This group meets online.

Readers can choose to read either, Mary Todd Lincoln, A Biography  by Jean Harvey Baker or The True Mary Todd  Lincoln by Betty Boles Ellison. (from Lexington, KY, helped restore Mary Todd Lincoln House). All are welcome, even if you have not finished the book and want to know more about Mary Todd Lincoln.

Mary Todd Lincoln, the Biography: Library Journal states that “In the thriving cottage industry of Lincoln studies Baker’s readable and sympathetic biography is easily the definitive account of the troubled former First Lady. Baker’s principal contribution is in recognizing Mary Todd Lincoln on her own terms.”  The True Mary Todd Lincoln: This new biography provides a startlingly different picture of Mary Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln's wife. Preconceived myths about the former first lady are factually disproved.

Help plan the League’s Community Forums, which address topical issues in Lexington.

Committee Meetings are held virtually, so rest assured that you can fully participate, safely from the comfort of your home!

Join the LWVKY in reaching out to thousands of Kentucky voters with voting reminders via LWV's League In Action platform on May 20th at 6:00 PM ET/ 5:00 PM CT. Last chance to reach voters before Election Day on May 21!

No training needed-register today! Bring your smart phone.

Join the LWVKY in reaching out to thousands of Kentucky voters with voting reminders via LWV's League In Action platform on May 16th at 6:00 PM ET/ 5:00 PM CT . No training needed-register today! Bring your smart phone.

Join the nonpartisan Our People Our Vote Virtual Phonebank on Wednesday, May 15, 6-7PM ET/5-6PM CT to contact voters across Kentucky to encourage them to vote on May 21st. We will meet on Zoom for a brief training and Q&A, then jump on the phones (remotely) to talk about voting.

The League of Women Voters of Kentucky is a proud member of the Our People Our Vote Coalition.

Help plan the League’s Community Forums, which address topical issues in Lexington.

Committee Meetings are held virtually, so rest assured that you can fully participate, safely from the comfort of your home!

Join the Lexington League of Women Voters Board members at our monthly meeting to learn more about the League’s activities in our community. Although this is a business meeting, this is the easiest way to find out about all of the exciting things that are happening, meet other members and become part of the action! All meetings are open to all members and potential members of the League of Women Voters. The meeting usually occurs on the fourth Wednesday of the month.

The meeting will occur via Zoom.

Help plan the League’s Community Forums, which address topical issues in Lexington.

Committee Meetings are held virtually, so rest assured that you can fully participate, safely from the comfort of your home!

Join the Lexington League of Women Voters Board members at our monthly meeting to learn more about the League’s activities in our community. Although this is a business meeting, this is the easiest way to find out about all of the exciting things that are happening, meet other members and become part of the action! All meetings are open to all members and potential members of the League of Women Voters. The meeting usually occurs on the fourth Wednesday of the month.

The meeting will occur via Zoom.

Bring big ideas and action plans! The League of Women Voters of Lexington will be making goals and plans for the upcoming fiscal year that starts in July. Join this 2-hour planning session on Zoom. Fun and prizes and of course, plans for defending democracy and empowering voters. Bring a friend and let’s do this!

Join the League of Women Voters' Book Club. Everyone is welcome, even if you haven’t read the book. There is sure to be interesting discussion and will leave learning something new! This group meets online.

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein.

With Black History Month in February, our book selection gives background history on redlining in the United States and how it continues to affect African Americans in our country. Our Lexington LWV will highlight redlining in Lexington, Kentucky.

The Color of Law: This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review).

Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past. 

Join the League of Women Voters' Book Club. Everyone is welcome, even if you haven’t read the book. There is sure to be interesting discussion and will leave learning something new! This group meets online.

For this Book Club meeting, readers have a choice of TWO books about Mary Todd Lincoln. The first is Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean H. Baker. “In a thriving cottage industry of Lincoln studies Baker’s readable and sympathetic biography is easily the definitive account of the troubled First Lady.” - Library Journal.  The second book, The True Mary Todd Lincoln, is written by a writer from Lexington, Betty Boles Ellison, a member of the Kentucky Mansions Preservation Foundation, who was involved in the restoration and operation of her girlhood home. Both are available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle editions. However, you will probably learn about Mrs. Lincoln if you come for conversation. Everyone is welcome!

Help plan the League’s Community Forums, which address topical issues in Lexington.

Committee Meetings are held virtually, so rest assured that you can fully participate, safely from the comfort of your home!

Join the Lexington League of Women Voters Board members at our monthly meeting to learn more about the League’s activities in our community. Although this is a business meeting, this is the easiest way to find out about all of the exciting things that are happening, meet other members and become part of the action! All meetings are open to all members and potential members of the League of Women Voters. The meeting usually occurs on the fourth Wednesday of the month.

The meeting will occur via Zoom.

Help plan the League’s Community Forums, which address topical issues in Lexington.

Committee Meetings are held virtually, so rest assured that you can fully participate, safely from the comfort of your home!

Help plan the League’s Community Forums, which address topical issues in Lexington.

Currently Committee Meetings are held virtually, so rest assured that you can fully participate, safely from the comfort of your home!

Join the Lexington League of Women Voters Board members at our monthly meeting to learn more about the League’s activities in our community. Although this is a business meeting, this is the easiest way to find out about all of the exciting things that are happening, meet other members and become part of the action! All meetings are open to all members and potential members of the League of Women Voters. The meeting usually occurs on the fourth Wednesday of the month.

The meeting will occur via Zoom.

Join the League of Women Voter’s Book Club. Everyone is welcome, even if you haven’t read the book. There is sure to be interesting discussion and will leave learning something new! This group meets online.

We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn’t seen since the Civil War. Pundits and politicians are calling for us to come together and find common purpose. But how, exactly, can this be done?

In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, childcare centers, churches, and parks where crucial connections are formed. Interweaving his own research with examples from around the globe, Klinenberg shows how “social infrastructure” is helping to solve some of our most pressing societal challenges. Richly reported and ultimately uplifting, Palaces for the People offers a blueprint for bridging our seemingly unbridgeable divides.

Help plan the League’s Community Forums, which address topical issues in Lexington.

Currently Committee Meetings are held virtually, so rest assured that you can fully participate, safely from the comfort of your home!

Join the Lexington League of Women Voters Board members at our monthly meeting to learn more about the League’s activities in our community. Although this is a business meeting, this is the easiest way to find out about all of the exciting things that are happening, meet other members and become part of the action! All meetings are open to all members and potential members of the League of Women Voters. The meeting usually occurs on the fourth Wednesday of the month.

The meeting will occur via Zoom.

Help plan the League’s Community Forums, which address topical issues in Lexington.

Currently Committee Meetings are held virtually, so rest assured that you can fully participate, safely from the comfort of your home!

Join the Lexington League of Women Voters Board members at our monthly meeting to learn more about the League’s activities in our community. Although this is a business meeting, this is the easiest way to find out about all of the exciting things that are happening, meet other members and become part of the action! All meetings are open to all members and potential members of the League of Women Voters. The meeting usually occurs on the fourth Wednesday of the month.

The meeting will occur via Zoom.

Celebrate National Voter Registration Day on September 19 by joining the League of Women Voters of Kentucky for a virtual voter registration friendbank at 6:00 PM ET/ 5 PM CT! We will be texting our friends and family to verify their voter registration so they will be able to have their voice heard in the November election.

Help plan the League’s Community Forums, which address topical issues in Lexington.

Currently Committee Meetings are held virtually, so rest assured that you can fully participate, safely from the comfort of your home!

Join the Lexington League of Women Voters Board members at our monthly meeting to learn more about the League’s activities in our community. Although this is a business meeting, this is the easiest way to find out about all of the exciting things that are happening, meet other members and become part of the action! All meetings are open to all members and potential members of the League of Women Voters. The meeting usually occurs on the fourth Wednesday of the month.

The meeting will occur via Zoom.

Join this virtual meeting to learn about voter registration in your community! We will also familiarize you with the current voting laws and election related deadlines. It will be an opportunity to also learn about new ways that we are connecting with voters to improve voter turnout. 

We encourage all volunteers to attend and familiarize themselves with this process that is integral to our mission.

Join the League of Women Voter’s Book Club. This group meets online.

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚ Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Education‚ Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and Zora.

Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander’s unforgettable argument that “we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.” As the Birmingham Newsproclaimed, it is “undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S.”

LWV-Lexington members and volunteers, if you want to get involved with candidate forums, this meeting is the best way to get in on the action! This is a chance to help develop questions, help with forum logistics, train to be a timer or moderator. Also we would love to have your input on further development of moderator and other volunteer trainings and recruiting additional volunteers for our Candidate Forums.

This meeting occurs on the Second Wednesday of the month at 7 PM ET.