LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Thirty-one quilts hang like tapestries at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, weaving history with art. Each shows a Black jockey wearing the silks they had in life.

Don’t Forget to Remember (Me)” by Nekisha Durrett is a landscaping monument challenging the college’s racially exclusionary ...

William Harvey Carney actions amid some of the most intense combat of the Civil War would earn him the respect of his fellow troops and the Medal of Honor.