A novelist who was the first African-American to be published abroad. A former slave who sued her master for freedom. And one of the first black men to graduate from West Point. These are just some of the historical figures actors with the Kentucky Chautauqua program portray, telling their stories in communities across the Commonwealth.

Tennessee lawmakers Thursday celebrated the preservation of the state’s so-called drag ban. The U.S. Supreme Court this week refused to hear a legal challenge to the law, leaving in place a lower court’s ruling which found plaintiffs didn’t have standing to sue.

A priority bill that sponsors hope will see the Bluegrass State get on the big screen more often – and provide more economic benefits to the Commonwealth – passed out of a Kentucky Senate committee Thursday.

Murray State University’s Cinema International program is planning to screen the award-winning 2014 docudrama that depicts the historic Civil Rights Movement event led by Martin Luther King Jr., Hosea Williams and John Lewis in Alabama.

An arts festival in far western Kentucky is searching for a new host after its main sponsor decided it could no longer handle the annual event.

PFS, Maiden Alley Cinema's montly movie club is celebrating Black History Month with a presentation of Oscar Micheaux's "Within Our Gates," the oldest surviving feature directed by a Black American.

This weekend, the Paducah Symphony Orchestra is performing a Disney-themed concert titled 'Cinemagic' at the Carson Center—a collection of themes from the Disney film catalogue over the years, from classical pieces by Tchaikovsky to contemporary works from John Williams.

A biopic telling the story of a gay Mexican-American wrestler who participates in Lucha Libre, a Mexican style of wrestling that often includes masks and sequences of holds. The protagonist goes on a journey of self-discovery that leads him to adopt the flamboyant persona "Cassandro" as he rises to international fame.

The 1965 tour sparked a great deal of controversy among music listeners and fans of Dylan’s folk music who felt he was betraying his base by changing his sound and becoming more commercial – much of which was depicted in the recent Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” starring Timothee Chalamet.

Paducah's Market House is presenting "Where There's a Will, There's a Way," a murder mystery production centered around unexpected twists and murder surrounding the reading of a will.