A military dermatologist who spoke to Military.com said Black service members are about 15% of active-duty military but that “66% of shaving waiver holders are Black.” ...

Gen. Colin L. Powell, the youngest and first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was the first Black American to serve as Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005 during former President ...

When my grandfather returned to Mississippi from WWI, he was forced to flee the state by white supremacists who saw his service in France — as a Black man in an unsegregated society — as a threat.