• Mission: The Louisville Urban League is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, community service organization dedicated to eliminating racism and its adverse impacts on our community. Our mission is to assist African Americans and other marginalized populations in attaining social and economic equality through direct services and advocacy. As part of a broader National Urban League network of historic civil rights organizations throughout the United States, the Louisville Urban League, like all affiliates, is dedicated to fostering economic empowerment in order to elevate the standard of living in historically underserved urban communities, with our focus on Jobs, Justice, Education, Health and Housing. Currently the Louisville Urban League’s service area includes the Kentucky counties of Jefferson, Shelby, Oldham, Bullitt and Hardin; and the Indiana counties of Floyd, Harrison and Clark.

  • Project: LUL launched the Polaroid Project and distributed almost 200 cameras to youth in Louisville asking them what peace and justice looks like to them. LUL staff and participants engaged in facilitated weekly virtual sessions to learn about photography fundamentals, learn from professional videographers and activists, and have a space to process the murder of Breonna Taylor through arts. 

  • Outcomes: LUL partnered with Kentucky Performing Arts, conducted participant interviews, and is preparing a gallery exhibit with the final piece incorporating the work of the participants.


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Article: How Louisville kids capture history through The Polaroid Project
Article: How Louisville kids capture history through The Polaroid Project

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —Chris Fletcher kicked off the Louisville Urban League’s Polaroid Project.

“We want to see what peace and justice looks like in the lens of the youth,” said Chris Fletcher of the Urban League.

"You know Louisville being one of the center stages of this movement and what is going on with social justice, we felt that it was our responsibility to do something like that and involve the youth like that," said Fletcher.