It took the Secret Service nearly a century to hire its first Black special agent, Charles L. Gittens, in 1956.Another 15 years would pass before the organization brought on its first female ...

Secret Service swarm black-clad man who tried climbing over White House fence after saying, ‘F–k it’ By . Isabel Keane. Published Feb. 5, 2025. Updated Feb. 5, 2025, 8:50 a.m. ET.

Bolden, a former highway patrolman and Chicago-based Secret Service agent, was the first black member of the Secret Service, personally hired by Kennedy to be part of his presidential detail.

Bolden, a former highway patrolman and Chicago-based Secret Service agent, was the first black member of the Secret Service, personally hired by Kennedy to be part of his presidential detail.

Legal Issues Park Police pulled over a Black Secret Service officer — twice. A federal appeals court this week affirmed that the officers who pulled over Nathaniel Hicks owe him $730,000 in damages ...

Bolden made history as the first Black U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to the White House detail, where he guarded President John F. Kennedy who had personally appointed him in 1961.

Flemister joined the Secret Service in 1974, more than 15 years after Charles L. Gittens, the first Black special agent, was hired in 1956. She experienced racist and discriminatory acts from the ...

Zandra Flemister, the first Black woman in the law enforcement agency, died Tuesdsay at age 71.According to The Washington Post, Flemister’s husband of 42 years, John Collinge, said the cause of ...

Feb. 26 (UPI) --Zandra Flemister, a pioneer who became the first Black woman in the U.S. Secret Service, has died. She was 71. Flemister was heralded as a "trailblazer" by Secret Service Director ...