Now is the perfect time to uncancel the minutemen, the Revolutionary War marksmen who were ready ... politics to the minutemen is debased. Why? Black men served as minutemen.

While researching my book Brothers in War and Peace ... the new black elite and the politically well-connected while many among the poor have become even poorer. I am not white, but I know ...

Years after the war ... Black characters in the film were fictionalized versions based on biographical sketches of soldiers known to have been in the 54th. The movie does include the 54th’s real ...