A Jefferson County Public Schools middle school student received one of the racially charged texts, according to the Kentucky ...

While the messages varied in specifics, all of the texts instructed recipients to report to a plantation for “mandatory” ...

A Republican lawmaker in Kentucky described her white father as a “slave” as she spoke to a ... nearly 70 years after slavery was outlawed in America. A columnist for the newspaper asked ...

“My father was a slave, just to a white man and he was white ... equity and inclusion programs – this year’s chosen bogeyman of Kentucky’s right-wing politicians – are needed in ...

Abolitionist papers constituted a threat to the slave owners’ property ... Since no such prohibitions were in Kentucky’s ...

He eluded slave hunters by changing his name to Douglass ... This event was part of the Kentucky Book Festival held in Lexington. Jamie Stiehm compared the lives and achievements of Frederick ...

Speaking before packed houses in Great Britain and America, Douglass attacked Christianity ... Located close to the border of the slave state Kentucky, the city of Cincinnati gave Stowe direct ...

The Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc.: Louisville, 1992. A selection of quilts and with chapters that include slave-made products, free blacks in antebellum America, late nineteenth century, and ...

Head to Bowling Green, Kentucky – the self-proclaimed "home of America's sports car" – to ... visited one of her students and witnessed a slave auction at a local courthouse.

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali became World Heavyweight champion for the second time on this day in 1974 after defeating George Foreman in the "Rumble in the Jungle" in Zaire, modern-day Democratic ...

The election of 1800 alone featured almost everything that's made President Trump's three presidential contests a wild ride.

Clashing interests on protectionism and trade, as well as sharply divided views on the role of government and America’s place ... of the international slave trade in 1807, the number of enslaved ...