The last living link of my family’s story of origin in antebellum Southern Virginia died at age 105 a few years ago. My grandmother, Mamie Todd, was born in 1916. Her grandparents were born into ...

Col. James H. Harvey III, 101, is among the last few airmen and support crew who proved that a Black unit — the 332nd Fighter Group of the Tuskegee Airmen — could fight as well as any other in ...

What is it about diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) that has the Trump administration in such atwitter? Is it bigotry, is ...

Trump’s approach is “a literal attack on Black America itself,” Ibram X. Kendi, the race historian and bestselling author, ...

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Accessing equitable health care is an ongoing struggle in the US for minority communities due to historical pretexts with new ...

The one area in which I think the Trump administration’s wrecking-ball approach to federal government reform is necessary and ...

The military is not just a chapter in my life. It’s my bloodline, my inheritance, and my foundation. My father, Floyd McAfee, was a career Army officer. My uncles fought in World War II. My younger ...

Keeping an important part of history alive, the Delaware Army National Guard hosted the second annual Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day in New Castle County. The expo celebrates the brave men who ...

Jack Riggio felt that Carl J. Woods Jr., a Tuskegee Airman from Mars who was killed in World War II, was a hero who deserved ...

They argued that his executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution is his administration’s latest move to downplay how race, racism and Black Americans themselves have shaped the nation ...