The prestigious grounds of the United States Military Academy at West Point, better known simply as West Point, recently honored one of its most accomplished, if controversial, graduates by naming a cadet barracks after him. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. was the school’s first Black cadet in the 20th Century, and though he faced a […]

Benjamin O. Davis Jr. was the first Black general of the United States Air Force, following in the similar footsteps to his father, Benjamin O. Davis Sr., who was the first Black general of the United States Army. Davis was born on December 18, 1912, in Washington, D.C., the second of three children born to […]