One researcher argues a general's 200-year-old Kentucky will, and others like it, support the case for present-day ...

With grace, humility, and conviction Sherrilyn Ifill reminds us that there is always good work to be done—and that, in fact, we are the ones who must do it.

The Herald-Leader is celebrating Lexington’s 250th birthday by revisiting key moments in the city’s vibrant history, ...

The appeals court, which was the highest court in Kentucky from 1792 to 1975, made front-page news in 1891 when ... in such landmark decisions as Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, which created the ...

In 1849, one family took on segregation in Boston, laying early groundwork for that Supreme Court victory nearly a century ...

Just beyond 2025, you'll find a series of high court elections that together have perhaps even larger ramifications than who ...

She cited the "separate but equal" principle of legalized racial segregation in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case as a precedent that was appropriately overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in its ...

The language echoes that associated with the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, which declared segregation on the basis of race to be legal; Require all state and ...