At a Civil War Battlefield in Mississippi, There's a New Effort to Include More Black History In recent years, the National Park Service has broadened how it presents history in parks nationwide.
How the 3 Living Black Medal of Honor Recipients Embody the Military’s Top Award On Jan. 10, 1968, Private 1st Class Clarence Sasser was part of a reconnaissance mission in southern Vietnam when his...
Buffalo Soldiers Receive New VA Headstones Following Army Decision to Overturn Convictions More than 100 years after they were convicted of mutiny and murder and hanged for the 1917 Houston Riot, 17 Black soldiers...
11 Examples of Black Heroism in the Military Dating all the way back to the American Revolution, Blacks have played key roles in the history (and success) of the U.S...
Getting to Know the First Black Navy SEALs Fred "Tiz" Morrison and William Goines were Black pioneers in naval special warfare and generally acknowledged to be the...
The Navy's Naming of its Newest Destroyer Is the Latest Attempt to Honor a Forgotten Black WWII Hero In a daring feat of strength and endurance following an enemy attack that sank the USS Gregory on Sept. 5, 1942, Charles...
A New Book Details the 7 Black Medal of Honor Recipients of World War II In 1993, the Army initiated a review of its records to find out why no Black men who served in World War II were awarded the...
Baseball Legend Jackie Robinson Was Court-Martialed for Refusing to Move to the Back of a Bus Jackie Robinson's court-martial kept the baseball icon from fighting in World War II Europe.
The Tuskegee Airmen: A Tribute to Military Pioneers A brief history of this groundbreaking World War II air crew.
Nomination of Air Force Officer at Center of GOP's Fight Against 'Woke' Military Extended to 2025 Col. Ben Jonsson's nomination to become a one-star general was set to expire May 1 under a law that says military officer...
Camp Lejeune Sergeant Identified as Marine Killed During Training in North Carolina Sgt. Colin Arslanbas, a Marine with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, died Thursday evening during a training...
‘Indefinite’ Defense Department IDs Inconvenience Air Travelers, May Be Dropped as Acceptable Identification The Transportation Security Administration's Credential Authentication Technology reads the cards' INDEF date field as...
Fort Liberty Soldier Sentenced to Over 3 Years for Romance Scams, Bilked Over $350,000 from Victims Specialist Sanda G. Frimpong, who was serving on active duty until his arrest in 2023, was ordered to pay back over $350,000...
Navy Chief Petty Officer Convicted of Attempted Espionage at San Diego Court-Martial The Navy has convicted a chief petty officer of attempted espionage, among other charges, at a court-martial in San Diego...