Black History

Karyn Parsons, best known for playing Hilary Banks in the television series “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” will give a lecture at Northern Kentucky University as part of the university’s Black History Month programming.

It is exciting, in this moment, to be able to compile a list of shows spotlighting Black leads and recognize that there are more that did not make the cut.

Deqah Hussein-Wetzel holds Listen and Learn sessions in Avondale, Evanston and South Cumminsville.

In 1897, Woodson enrolled in Berea College in Kentucky, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in literature. Yet, he spent much of that time outside Kentucky. Jessica Klanderud, director of the Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education at Berea College, shares why.