WASHINGTON (AP) — Hand gestures flashed by West Point cadets and Naval Academy midshipmen during the televised Army-Navy football game were not racist signals, military investigations have concluded. A Navy probe of the event found that the students were participating in a “sophomoric game” on Saturday and had no racist intent. An Army statement Friday […]

  You’ve probably seen the picture. If you haven’t, you can easily find it online. Just go to BlackAmericaWeb.com and find it there. Sixteen African American women — graduation seniors at West Point — posing for a photo while wearing high-collared uniforms and standing on the steps of historic Nininger Hall. It’s a tradition. Generations of […]

  Roland Martin talks to Mary Tobin, a 2003 graduate of West Point, about the investigation underway of 16 black women whose raised fists in a photo has caused national outrage. “These women are dismayed. They already have the pressure of final exams, but in a few weeks they’ll go out into the military and into […]