WASHINGTON INFORMER - The U.S. Air Force has named its new trainer jet in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen, a squadron of America’s first Black pilots...
FLORDIA COURIER — A Tuskegee Airman and other aviation luminaries will be honored at the Greater Miami Aviation Association’s 92th gala on Saturday, Oct. 12 at...
OAKLAND POST — The Oakland Raiders are active off the field during the teams summer Training Camp operations at the Napa Valley Marriott and the adjacent Redwood...
VOICE AND VIEWPOINT — In 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles ended WWI, two years after the U.S. entered the fight with France and Great Britain against...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Whether it’s taking a stand for the Double V campaign during World War II; marching with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the...
OAKLAND POST — Inmates at the Marin County Jail have had access to a modest selection of books for many years. What was missing was a catalog...
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CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — The migration of well-to-do millennials, empty nesters and others into cities and the exit of working-class people and/or people of color is a...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Today, our nation proudly honors the sacrifices of its heroes. “From the first African-American Medal of Honor recipient to current day Soldiers, individuals...
DALLAS POST TRIBUNE — Robert T. McDaniel, the last member of the all-black elite military crew from Fort Worth that fought during World War II, has died...
All the Fighting 90th Tuskegee Airmen wanted was an opportunity to serve. And in “Black Eagles,” the play by Leslie Lee and directed by L. Peter...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — More than half a million Black African soldiers who fought in the British army were paid up to three times less than...
Yong-soo Lee, 89, a “comfort woman” during World War II, touches the statue of the late Grandma Hak-soon Kim who first broke the silence by publicly...
Adam Taylor, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — As the debate about the use of the Confederate flag raged in the United States this...
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring it’s never too late to make things right, President Barack Obama posthumously bestowed the Medal of Honor on...
ARON HELLER, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — When Jennifer Teege stumbled upon a book in a Hamburg library seven years ago, the biracial German woman who...
The Richmond Museum Association recently hosted a crab feed to fund the restoration of the SS Red Oak Victory Ship. In the mid-1990s, the SS Red...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press GREENWOOD, S.C. (AP) — Along Main Street in a small South Carolina city, there is war memorial honoring fallen World War I...
JOHN ROGERS, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clarence E. Huntley Jr. and Joseph Shambrey grew up running track together in the same Los Angeles neighborhood...
By Brian Day, San Gabriel Valley Tribune Japanese-American World War II veterans who fought in a segregated regiment their families were incarcerated in U.S. internment camps...
An 89-year old woman who was among the Japanese Americans sent to internment camps during World War II spoke at the West Contra Costa Unified School...