Divya Karthikeyan
Race & Equity Reporter, Louisville Public MediaDivya Karthikeyan covers Race & Equity for LPM.
Previously, she served as the Capitol Reporter for Kentucky Public Radio, a collaborative of stations including LPM, WEKU, WKYU and WKMS.
Originally from Chennai, India, she’s reported for national and international outlets on politics, climate change, gender and caste inequality in India. She started out in the U.S. as a graduate student at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and interned at The New Republic and Gotham Gazette.
Email Divya at dkarthikeyan@lpm.org.
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Local authorities would be barred from assisting in federal firearms bans in a bill that passed the Kentucky House today.
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Kentucky lawmakers are advancing a bill to provide more resources for pregnant people with depression.
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The Kentucky Supreme Court weighed in on a challenge to the state's abortion bans, saying the two bans should remain in place despite voters rejecting an anti-abortion ballot measure in November.
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Kentuckians could be charged with murder if they get an illegal abortion under a bill filed in the state legislature this week.
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Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration is calling on lawmakers to set aside $45.2 million to boost staffing and update security in Kentucky’s youth detention facilities after a series of violent incidents in recent years.
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Kentucky election officials have been working to clean up the state's voter rolls in recent years, and on Friday they say about 127,000 people who have died, moved or otherwise become ineligible will be removed.
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Kentucky has one of the highest mortality rates for pregnant people in the nation and advocates are calling on state lawmakers to help address the problem.
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Kentucky lawmakers returned to Frankfort on Tuesday after a break in this year's legislative session.
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After reports of violence from Kentucky’s juvenile detention facilities, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear announced a series of fixes, including raising pay for guards and other workers, boosting security and separating youth inmates by gender and severity of offense.
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A workgroup of Republican state lawmakers says Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear needs to overhaul leadership of the state’s troubled juvenile justice system.