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Though not known to many, Stovepipe No. 1 – a west Kentucky musician nicknamed for his hat and instrument of choice – left a unique mark on the history of jug band music.
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A far western Kentucky city honored the memory of a Black artist who called the town home over the weekend with a guest author sharing their recent children's book about his life.
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A pair of Paducah art exhibits – one curated by a Graves County art institution at Paducah City Hall and another at the National Quilt Museum – are among the many options available to west Kentucky residents and visitors observing Black History Month.
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Austin Carter speaks to Murray State professor of history Dr. Brian Clardy about his upcoming lecture as part of the university's Black Heritage Lecture series.
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Austin Carter speaks to Dr. Alicestyne Turley ahead of her McLib Evening Upstairs presentation: African Americans in the Civil War.
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West Kentucky Community & Technical College is renaming its office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to memorialize the Paducah institution’s first Black graduate.
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WKMS celebrates Black History Month with special programming each Thursday in February. Programs include historical, musical, and social subject matter that analyzes and celebrates the Black experience in the U.S.
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A symposium discussing the history of African American recreation during the Jim Crow era is planned for Friday.
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Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard isn’t a name that’s included in every history book, but the Murray native was on the frontlines seeking justice and equality during the civil rights movement. The western Kentucky man would play a key role in the aftermath of the lynching of Emmett Till, telling countless people about the corruption and racism rampant in the South at the time.
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Carter G. Woodson was a historian, author and journalist, known to many as the “Father of Black History Month.” And Kentucky is a part of his story. Woodson was the