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 ...

This year’s History Hop features three venues: the Ashland Henry Clay Estate, the Mary Todd Lincoln House, and the Lexington ...

As we continue our coverage of Black History Month, we are highlighting a Lexington-based nonprofit agribusiness. This year’s theme is ‘African Americans and Labor.’ ...

The watchword for the weekend is rain -- and potentially lots of it. With that in mind, Gov. Andy Beshear has placed Kentucky under a State of Emergency heading into Saturday.

It seems like foreshadowing that they met while playing the board game Life. Marietta Barton was 19 years old; Jeff Baxter was 21. Despite both growing up ...

In Autun, France, archaeologists discovered a 1,600-year-old fabric woven with gold threads in an ancient burial site. The fabric, once a symbol of elite aristocracy, was found in a lead coffin, along ...

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...

If you’ve ever been to the downtown branch of the Lexington Public Library chances are you’ve interacted with Lexingtonian Wayne Johnson. For over 30 years his natural habitat has been the Kentucky ...

John Schlitt fronted Petra for dozens of years and before that he was the lead singer of the 70s/80s band Head East. He's also released six solo albums and played with several other groups.

Leader’s yearlong examination of notable people, institutions and key moments in Lexington’s history focuses on an early ...

The Wildcats will wear their white uniforms with pink lining to support the program’s annual Play4Kay awareness game ...

A developer wanted to build a downtown high-rise in honor of coal. It failed, but Lexington is getting a new-and-improved ...