MIAA Offensive Player of the Year Zach Zebrowski has had a record-breaking season as the Mules’ QB. Ninety miles away, his dad is helping shift the culture of Jayhawks football.
Christian music artist Matthew West will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Paramount Arts Center in Ashland. Lexington singer-songwriter Anne Wilson will open. For ticket information, call (606) 324-0004.
Annie Malone
Believed to be the first Black female millionaire, Annie Turnbo Malone was born in Metropolis in 1869 and came to live with an older sister in Peoria when she was orphaned. She attended Peoria Central High School, where her picture still hangs in honor of her status as a special alumnus, according to The Peorian.
With a talent for chemistry, Malone set about developing hair products for women of color, which she marketed to great success.
In the early 1900s Malone started a hair and beauty school in St. Louis, which was one of the first colleges for Black women. Called Poro College after a West African word meaning ‘physical and spiritual growth,’ the school employed hundreds of Black women and became a social center for the community.