Black History Month

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.

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.

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.

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.

Austin Carter speaks to Dr. Alicestyne Turley ahead of her McLib Evening Upstairs presentation: African Americans in the Civil War.

West Kentucky Community & Technical College is renaming its office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to memorialize the Paducah institution’s first Black graduate.

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.

A symposium discussing the history of African American recreation during the Jim Crow era is planned for Friday.

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.

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