A Kentucky fan caught on camera using a racial slur will never be allowed a ticket to a UK athletic event ever again.

Owensboro Police Chief Art Ealum became the first African-American elected president of the Kentucky Association of Chiefs of Police (KACP).

Together Lexington is donating its upcoming local African-American Heritage signage to the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government.

Thursday night, a group of young men committed to the schools they'll attend in the fall, at a ceremony in front of their friends and family.

Emotions ran high during a senate committee meeting as lawmakers clashed with leaders of the African American community over whether or not House Bill 169, the gang prevention bill, disproportionately targets minority youth.

Western Kentucky University's Student Government Association has passed a resolution calling for free tuition for black students as reparations for slavery.

James Long, a jockey who won more than 300 races in his career, has died in a car accident. He was 62.

Berea's city council has just passed a resolution condemning hate crimes in the city. It comes after vandalism targeting a lesbian couple last month.

A University of Kentucky mural that has been shrouded for months over its controversial depiction of slavery and Native Americans has been unveiled.

The director of a museum at the Kentucky Horse Park is working to open a permanent exhibit dedicated to the history of black jockeys.

Three black teens say the manager of a Lexington restaurant attacked them because of the color of their skin. The girls claim this happened Saturday night at a restaurant called Portofino in downtown Lexington.

The Lexington Police Department is looking for volunteers to help in a restoration project at Cove Haven Cemetery on Whitney Avenue.

Louisville's police department has posted graphic body camera video from the fatal shooting of an African-American man by white police officers.

What began as a death investigation in Christian County is now being called a homicide by State Police.

The largest Presbyterian denomination in the U.S. has elected its first African-American top executive.

Georgia Davis Powers' funeral turned into a celebration of a life that broke down barriers as a civil-rights icon and the first African-American woman elected to the Kentucky Senate

A veteran's group is spearheading an effort to rename the Radcliff Veterans Center after a U.S. Navy officer who was the first African-American to become a Master Diver.

By 2020, the University of Kentucky aims to aggressively increase its six-year graduation rate to 70 percent — an increase of nearly 10 percent over recent figures. At the same time, the university wants to significantly close the achievement gap — retention and graduation rates — that exists between the general student population and students of color, first-generation students and students eligible for Pell grants.

George Rogers Clark High School history teacher Amy Madsen recently discovered, her class is one of a kind.

It was Friday the thirteenth eleven years ago that Lexington's first African-American female firefighter was shot in the line of duty.