Sheriff Andy Taylor’s lovable son, Opie, in the television series—recently shared a throwback photo with a surprising revelation: He and Don Knotts are distant cousins.

As Black History Month heads into its final week, there is a piece of profound history in our region that overlooks a hillside on Miami's western campus.

Characters such as Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor and drug dealer, and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica known as the Dope King, had become the villains ...

A sketch rescued in a dumpster in Hudson, New York is a long lost sketch by renowned English portrait painter George Romney.

They're the Forty Elephants, a real gang led by the charismatic Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), who pilfer the prized possessions ...

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

Ron Howard, who played Opie on "The Andy Griffith Show" as a child, said he recently found out that he and former co-star Don ...

Rare book collector Rebecca Romney takes us behind the archives that led to "Jane Austen's Bookshelf," a new book about the women writers who shaped Austen.

Gwendolyn Rainey founded the Mystic Krewe of Femme Fatale in 2013 to represent Black women in Carnival. It’s become one of the fastest growing parade groups ...