Daviess County High School continued commemorating Black History Month on Thursday, as students discussed art with Kenneth “K.O.” Lewis, an Owensboro artist and educator who has exhibited across the ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., the cousin of Emmett Till, told a group in Lincoln it's important to keep telling stories that show ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., a civil rights advocate, author and ordained minister, will deliver the keynote address for a Black ...

Local historians estimate around 11 lynchings happened in Madison County alone, and the Madison County Remembrance Project is working to commemorate each killing.

Frustrated with the absence of positive representations of Black people in art, John Wilson responded by providing images of Black dignity while addressing the painful realities of racial prejudice.

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with his cousin and best friend Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the ...

But Trayvon will forever remain 17 because he was a Black teenager — seen as a threat simply for existing — and gunned down by a man who decided he didn’t belong in his own neighborhood. “Happy ...

Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...

Details: 6:30 p.m. Friday, 3:30 and 6:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Garfield Theatre, 719 Race St., Downtown. Runs weekends Feb.

The Laband Art Galley's new "Ghosts of Segregation" exhibition explores how segregation and racism has historically been weaved into architecture in America.