Louisville Metro Area encompasses seven counties that stretch into Southern Indiana, yielding a 1.3 million population.

About 130,000 African Americans live in the Louisville Metro Area.

Located on the banks of the Ohio River southeast of Chicago, east of St. Louis, northwest of Atlanta, and west of Philadelphia, Louisville is one of the most accessible cities in the country.

Louisville argues that it has more restaurants per capita than any other city in the country.

Louisville’s Waterfront Park hosts over a million visitors per year.

90% of the United States' consumed disco balls are made in Louisville.

Approximately 1 million Louisville Slugger bats are manufactured here each year.

York - a slave explorer owned by William Clark of the Lewis & Clark Expedition

Muhammad Ali - The Greatest

Isaac Burns Murphy – Greatest jockey

Whitney M. Young, Jr. – Civil Rights activist

Wes Unseld – NBA basketball all-star center

Ed Hamilton – sculptor of Booker T Washington and Black Civil War Soldier monuments

George Wells - founded oldest remaining Black church in Louisville

Artis Gilmore – ABA Basketball legend, played center for Kentucky Colonels

Darrell Griffith – University of Louisville basketball legend

Anna Mac Clarke - First Black Women’s Army Corps officer to command a white unit

Moneta J. Sleet, Jr. - First African American to win Pulitzer Prize in photography

William Wells Brown - America's first black novelist