State Representative Melanie Miller has introduced legislation to recognize the 6888th Central Post Battalion, an all-Black ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

The life of Carmen Vazquez Rivera – a World War II and Korean War veteran who died recently at 103 – could be the makings of ...

For much of our history, rural women led the charge on social progress through our country’s biggest crises. And now they can help save us again.

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — The Six Triple Eight unit was the only unit made up entirely of Black women in World War II and one of them called Cobb County home. Channel 2 Cobb County Bureau Chief Michele ...

It would take two more decades and another world war before the Navy -- and the rest of the military -- took seriously the contributions of Black women, albeit begrudgingly and slowly. Through ...

Keeping an important part of history alive, the Delaware Army National Guard hosted the second annual Tuskegee Airmen ...

Dame Louise McIlroy achieved a number of firsts in medicine and also defied officials to serve in World War One.