When Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders charged up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War, their success was ensured by a dedicated corps of black soldiers-- the so-called Buffalo Soldiers-- ...
A memorial recognizing Black WWII soldiers was quietly taken down at a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands. Dutch media reports that two informational panels about African American soldiers in ...
SPANISH FORT, Ala. (WKRG) — One thing you should know is that many of the thousands of Black soldiers who fought for the Union Army during the Battle of Fort Blakeley are buried at Mobile National ...
The panels’ removal at the Netherlands American Cemetery comes after President Donald Trump issued a series of executive ...
Raphael Morris has never been to his uncle’s final resting place, the U.S. military’s only cemetery in the Netherlands—although a transatlantic trip is on his bucket list. To go and see where U.S.
Nearly one million African American soldiers fought in Europe during World War II. Now, plaques at a memorial site honoring the sacrifice of African American soldiers in the Netherlands have been ...
In the winter of 1944, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old then-1st Sgt. Jefferson Wiggins, along with hundreds of other Black soldiers, were tasked with ...
From film mastermind George Lucas, 2012’s Red Tails pays homage to the Tuskegee Airmen. Lucas, who started conceptualizing Red Tails more than 20 years earlier, sought to offer filmgoers a lesson in ...