Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...
Trump’s anti-diversity push comes for Arlington Cemetery’s rich, diverse history
Arlington National Cemetery has purged its website of pages about notable Black, Hispanic and women veterans, as well as ...
Arlington Cemetery Website Loses Pages on Black Veterans, Women and Civil War
The cemetery, which is operated by the Army, said it was working to restore the content. Among the obscured pages was ...
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New exhibit shows how African Americans returned from World War I only to a fight a war at home
The diary of African American teenager Jessie Greer, of Cincinnati, captured the moment when two “negro contingents,” as the local newspaper put it, came home to Ohio from World War I.
Opinion: Diversity and inclusion helped us win the Revolutionary War
Finally, after 250 years the truth is shared by the oldest continuous running newspaper in the United states, The Hartford ...