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

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 ...

If you walk around Lexington’s old courthouse, you may feel as if you’re being watched. There are ghostly figures in many of ...

As we continue our coverage of Black History Month, we are highlighting a Lexington-based nonprofit agribusiness. This year’s ...

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

Aristides won the very first Kentucky Derby, but history also remembers the colt’s jockey: Oliver Lewis, a Black jockey from ...

More and more projects across Kentucky are uncovering Black history through historical documents, then putting them online ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Lexington’s 250th Anniversary Commission announced its Black History Month events. “250Lex will celebrate, uplift and pay tribute to the many contributions African Americans ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — The Ashland Henry Clay Estate is full of history on display, from the items and artifacts to the building itself. Each relic and each story has plenty of lessons ...