Look for Alabama singer Dominique Posey on the next two episodes of "American Idol," performing as a member of the top 24. Posey, 26, a Birmingham resident, is likely to be featured tonight and ...

In the late 18th Century, Philadelphia was a city of high-end cuisine; however, few know that many of its culinary masters were of African descent like Hercules Posey.

As a regular night for the Congress dinners hosted by the president, it would have been presided over by Washington’s cook, Hercules Posey — a chef so notable that he was famous in his own time.

But that wasn’t always the case. In the late 1700s, George Washington’s chef was the enslaved Black man Hercules Posey, who has largely been lost to history. But a group of historians is trying to ...

On Feb. 22, 1797, while George Washington celebrated his 65th birthday at a ball in Philadelphia, his celebrated chef, Hercules Posey, slipped from the meager enslaved quarters at Mount Vernon ...