Compared with other similar Southern battlegrounds, where Obama has dominated, Kentucky has a significantly tinier black population. Gross reports having students of his at the University of ...

According to former Berea art professor Robert Piper ... intact until 1904, when the Kentucky legislature passed the Day Law, prohibiting Black and White people from attending school together.

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.