Transylvania grad was one of nation’s most-revered novelists
Leader’s review of some of Kentucky’s most notable individuals and historic moments focuses on an award-winning novelist who ...
Enslaved people took refuge at pioneering hotel on NC Outer Banks. But perils awaited
A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...
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Black Civil War soldiers massacred in Simpsonville, Kentucky, remembered 160 years later
SIMPSONVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Saturday will mark 160 years ... unit of formerly enslaved men who joined the Union Army during the Civil War—was ambushed by Confederate guerrillas.
‘Revolutionary’: Projects uncover Kentucky’s Black history, one digital document at a time
More and more projects across Kentucky are uncovering Black history through historical documents, then putting them online ...
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The Life of the Rev. Elisha W. Green
Green, written by himself, provides the modern reader with social life and culture throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky during the ante Bellum and post-Civil war period. He was likely born ...
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Youngstown native becomes first black woman to serve on Kentucky Supreme Court
Submitted photo Earlier this month, Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice Debra Hembree Lambert, left, honored Judge Pamela R. Goodwine with a prestigious award during ... civil law firm in ...
Trump immigration order leaves Kentucky Refugee Ministries facing cutbacks or closure
Kentucky Refugee Ministries, which operates three refugee resettlement offices in the state, receives 90% of its funding from federal grants.
Long before Jackie Robinson, Black jockeys dominated and changed horse racing
In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...
Eastern storm cuts power to tens of thousands as California braces for flooding
Snow, sleet and freezing rain are expected to continue pummeling the central Appalachians and mid-Atlantic states, while ...