A medieval embroidery known as the Bayeux Tapestry recounts key events of the 11th century, particularly William the Conqueror's triumph at the Battle of Hastings and the demise o ...
Bey’s show gets its name from a passage in the second stanza of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the hymn by James Weldon Johnson ...
Laura “Dollie” Johnson Dandridge was born into slavery in 1852 near Georgetown. She became a favorite cook among Union troops ...
Aristides won the very first Kentucky Derby, but history also remembers the colt’s jockey: Oliver Lewis, a Black jockey from Lexington.