New defense secretary Pete Hegseth has canceled all cultural awareness months in the Department of Defense, including Black History Month.

Black men whose courage, dedication, and success helped pave the way toward integration of the United States Armed Forces. In ...

when the military was segregated and African-Americans weren't permitted to play Major League Baseball, Joe Louis was the first African-American to achieve hero worship that was previously ...

African American troops line up, National Archives The military's view toward African ... becoming one of the first recognized heroes of World War II. The Tuskegee Airmen broke through another ...

Alfonso Domingo, co-director of the documentary “Invisible Heroes ... "Moreover, the only military unit that was commanded by an African-American before the Second World War", Domingo says.

At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the exhibition Double Victory: The African American Military Experience provides visitors a valuable overview. You can read a story from ...

Few military groups in American history can hold a candle to ... they also put to rest the prejudice against African Americans fighting for their country and were instrumental in bringing an ...

Orlando International Airport honors the contributions and sacrifices of the nation’s first African-American military pilots in a new community exhibit. The exhibit is presented in celebration ...

when the military was segregated and African-Americans weren't permitted to play major league baseball, Joe Louis was the first African-American to achieve the kind of hero worship that was ...

Woodson saw from experience that African American history was being "overlooked ... the first Black military aviators in what wasn't yet the U.S. Air Force. The day lands on the fourth Thursday ...