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 ...
‘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More and more projects across Kentucky are uncovering Black history through historical documents, then putting them online ...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 ...
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 ...
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Beshear calls out Trump for blaming D.C. midair collision on diversity policies
Chief Justice Debra Lambert speaks at the podium during a Black ... Juneteenth in Kentucky. Beshear previously signed an executive order recognizing Juneteenth, which celebrates the freedom of ...
'She thought of herself as the Queen of America': Why Mary Todd Lincoln became the US's most vilified First Lady
Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But with two ...
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'She thought of herself as the Queen of America': Why Mary Todd Lincoln became the US's most vilified First Lady
Indeed, the loyalty of the First Lady, who hailed from a slave-holding family, and had three half-brothers in the Confederate Army, was questioned throughout the Civil War. Even after her husband ...