Hoptown

The 1927 graduate of Howard University's medical school treated patients in his hometown for 50 years and ran Hopkinsville's only hospital for Black patients during segregation.

At a time when there were only a few Hopkinsville homes with cars, the forward-thinking Monroe Dalton built a house with a garage.

The meeting will be March 2 at the Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library.

In the second part of a three-part Black History Month series about Dr. Phillip Brooks, Grace Abernethy explores the history of the property where Brooks built Hopkinsville's only hospital for Black patients during segregation.

The public is invited to the Round Table Reading Series Lecture.

Some parking spaces will be unavailable to use after the work begins March 4.

Cowan Brooks, the son of Dr. Philip Carruthers Brooks, donated the artifact to the Pennyroyal Area Museum shortly after the death of his father.

The Hopkinsville native's best-known song is “Ice Cream Man,” and it has a backstory worthy of the blues.

The 28th annual African American Heritage Breakfast had 350 guests who heard from keynote speaker Rep. Pamela Stevenson.

The reenactment will be Tuesday, March 5, in Frankfort.

Organizers concluded the campaign with a celebration where several awards were presented.

The stories come from newspaper biographies written by a former Hopkinsville mayor in 1934.