and even during a pandemic, the Kentucky Black Bourbon Guild has offered more than 75 educational and enrichment workshops for the community and its members. The KBBG has established partnerships with Kentucky State University, Castle and Key’s Untold Story, created the Freddie Johnson Bourbon Scholarship, and a host of many other achievements. While there are many components of the organization’s mission and values, they understand the responsibility of ensuring that Black voices are included in the narrative and there has to be a continuous untapping of the research. Bourbon is an avenue or a conduit in which we can use to have hard conversations about race in America. And, it is not a secret that hard conversations are made better with good food and good spirits. Historical research plays in intricate part in having conversations about race and reconciliation. Will we ever know the history to be Black and bourbon in its entirety? Perhaps not, but we have to continue to tell our stories. And the like the production of Bourbon, history is a timeless process that is about patience and one that does not happen overnight.
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