A World War II Army veteran is celebrating a major milestone in Hampton. Beatrice F. Coleman turned 103 years old on Friday!

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago, has been confirmed to have African American ancestry through Creole ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, commonly known as the “Six Triple .

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United States Colored ... The passionate man labeled as the “most influential African American of the nineteenth century.” This is his voice.

"It never occurred to me that it would happen," retired Major Fannie McClendon, one of the two surviving veterans of ... the ...

Millie Dunn Veasey was a member of the 6888th Battalion. She was honored during a renaming ceremony of the post office on ...

A World War II Army veteran is celebrating a major ... At the time, there weren't many employment opportunities for African Americans. "There was nothing else for a Black woman to do," Beatrice ...

Men and women who served in the armed forces Servicemembers who died in battle Union soldiers who fought in the Civil War World War II veterans Veterans Day honors all the men and women who have ...

He received a Bronze Star, European African ... veterans. Thursday marks 80 years since the Allied victory in Europe. The National World War II Museum estimates less than 1 percent of American ...

My father served in Germany at the end of World War II ... to honor our veterans. Through exhibitions like “We Return Fighting” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture ...