He was a Minnesota native, a pilot who escorted bombers in World War II, and a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black military pilots. When asked why he wanted to serve, even though he was ...

In Vietnam the military death ratio was 85.6 percent white to 12.4 percent black. In the first Gulf War it was 76.3 percent white compared to 17.2 percent black; in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring ...

When Tarence Bailey Sr. received a formal memo from the Maryland National Guard declining to support a celebration for Frederick Douglass on Saturday, it felt personal. Not only because Bailey is ...

The romantic look included tiers of ballerina-esque ... Once inside the venue, Kidman added a black cropped military jacket, which was seen as she took the stage to toast her fellow honorees.

Sounds familiar? Because it is. While the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 allowed Black people to officially serve in the military, discrimination — including segregation — persisted.