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The celebrated author wrote about having a breakdown. Only now do we know the full story of a moment that caused her to say she could feel the Sixties “snapping.”

It was as if Aaron Judge were trying to show he can do everything, too.

The Lyric Theatre and Cultural Arts Center in downtown Lexington is celebrating the Martin Luther King holiday a day early with two fee screenings of “After King 23,” a new documentary by Lexington hip-hop artist and filmmaker Jeremiah Wrong, that explores where America is today, after Dr. King’s dream. WUKY's Alan Lytle spoke with Lyric executive director Whit Whitaker about this weekend’s kickoff event and several other related programs on the venue’s calendar.

Historian Marcia Chatelain found a surprising connection between McDonald's and civil rights history when researching her book "Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America." She writes about the intersection of race, capitalism and fast food.

In a one-on-one interview, the civil rights icon talks power, politics, and youth activism.

It wears its heart on its sleeve, unpretentious and sincere as a homemade valentine.

<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in">"Historians have generally discounted the role of the Kennedy administration, concluding that they moved only when forced to by the rush of events, and that somehow RFK experienced an epiphany after his brother was assassinated. This is clearly not the case."</p>

<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in">"Historians have generally discounted the role of the Kennedy administration, concluding that they moved only when forced to by the rush of events, and that somehow RFK experienced an epiphany after his brother was assassinated. This is clearly not the case."</p>

This week, Western media was full of praise for what they described as “Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to be inducted into France’s Pantheon”.