COOPER CITY, Fla. (AP) — Mourners Saturday remembered not only a U.S. soldier whose combat death in Africa led to a political fight between President Donald Trump and a Florida congresswoman but his three comrades who died with him. Some of the 1,200 mourners exiting the church after the service said the portrait of Sgt. […]
America has been waiting to learn the details about how and why Sgt. La David Johnson wasn’t rescued sooner after a deadly ambush against U.S. troops by terrorists in West Africa earlier this month.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Blacks in South Carolina who served in the Confederate military, many of them slaves pressed into duty, would be recognized with a Statehouse monument under a proposal by two white Republican lawmakers. State Reps. Bill Chumley and Mike Burns said Monday they want to recognize African-Americans whose courage has been purposely […]
There’s a new couple starring on the once-popular HGTV show Flip or Flop. The show featured a couple Tarek and Christina Al-Moussa who flipped homes for profit in Southern California. But with news that the couple was separated and heading towards divorce, HGTV decided to expand beyond them and to other couples in other cities. […]
As a little girl, Simone Askew would lead her sister and friends on marches through the woods pretending to be soldiers. Now, the 20-year-old Northern Virginia native is officially living out her dreams as the first African-American woman to lead cadets as the United States Military Academy at West Point in New York. Askew, an […]
General Hazel Johnson-Brown was the first Black woman named general in the United States Army and the first chief of the Army Corps of Nurses, both in 1979. General Johnson-Brown’s pathway to military life came after she was denied a chance to chase a dream of becoming a nurse. Johnson-Brown was born October 10, […]
A new report reveals that Black troops are far more likely than whites to face court martial or other forms of military punishment.
The 23rd Regiment of the United States Colored Infantry were instrumental in the American Civil War and was the first of the Colored Troops to engage Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army in direct combat. The 23rd were also helpful in liberating slaves held by the southern states and offering protection to those they helped go […]
Oscar Holmes broke three color barriers in his lifetime, although he never set out to become a pioneer. Holmes was not only the first Black air traffic controller, he was also the U.S. Navy’s first Black commissioned officer and the military branch’s first Black pilot. Holmes was born January 31, 1916 in Dunbar. W. Va. […]
Janie L. Miles made her mark on military history by becoming the first Black woman to graduate from the United States Naval Academy. Miles went on to a stellar career in business after ending her time with the U.S. Navy. Born in 1958 in Aiken, S.C., the 1976 Aiken High School graduate and honor […]
Last Friday at Camp Lejuene in North Carolina, dozens of surviving members of the Montford Point Marines were in attendance for the first phase unveiling of the National Montford Point Marine Memorial. The “Montford Pointers” were the first Black Marines to join the military branch after an executive order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt […]
This weekend in Houston, Texas, the army units known as the Buffalo Soldiers celebrated their 150th Anniversary. The Buffalo Soldiers, originally composed of former slaves and free men, were the first Black troops established during peacetime after the conclusion of the Civil War. On July 28,1866, the U.S. Army was reorganized for peacetime service a […]
