August 15, 2025 Newcastle: Historic images show ‘how we used to live’ By Duncan Leatherdale Newcastle Historic images show ‘how we used to live’
goodshit The Kentucky Derby has a deep, racially fraught history that is being actively reframed today: Black horsemen were central to the race’s origins, then were systematically pushed out during the Jim Crow era, and now the event publicly commemorates that past while downplaying its uglier segregation‑era legacy.