May 3, 2017. Louisville Black Lives Matter/Stand-Up Sunday has called for a boycott and picket of Dino’s Food Mart and Tony’s, located catty-corner from each other at the intersection of Twenty-Fifth and West Broadway. The reasons for the boycott are complex, but at root have to do with a profound lack of respect on the part of the owner for the predominantly Black residents of the neighborhood.

West Louisville, like so many similar communities in the United States, is a food and shopping desert, leaving locals with little choice of where to shop. The owners of the Dino’s/Tony’s emporiums take this situation as a license for disrespect, particularly for Black kids. Continue reading When… Then… →