AFRICAN-AMERICAN women who served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II played a role in bringing about changes in segregationist U.S. military policy, a new book by a UB sociologist has found ...

Fifty Black sailors refused to go back to work after the deadly Port Chicago explosion, citing unaddressed safety concerns. Convicted of mutiny, they weren't exonerated until last year.

The commander of the American Expeditionary Force, General John Pershing had refused to lead black soldiers into battle. Most of the third of a million African Americans drafted into the US Army ...

Black Americans have ... were the first Black military aviators, serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps. The Airmen's success in escorting bombers during World War II is unmatched by any other fighter ...

Kerry Washington and filmmaker Tyler Perry join for "The Six Triple Eight" to highlight WWII's only all-Black Women's Army Corps unit overseas.

During 1943 and 1944 over 1000 African American soldiers working in a number of Quartermaster and Engineer Units were based at Gaddesby Hall and other villages surrounding the US Airforce base ...

Because of its subject matter, my Christmas wish for “The Six Triple Eight” was to lead the review with “Tyler Perry having ...

On Tuesday, a Raleigh post office on Brentwood Road was officially renamed the "Millie Dunn Veasey Post Office." A Raleigh native, Millie Dunn Veasey served in the African American Women’s Army Corp ...