South Carolina is erecting its first-ever statue of an African American in honor of a Civil War hero who escaped slavery and became a prominent political figure after pretending to be a ...

Editor’s Note: This article is part of a month-long series celebrating Black History Month through aviation: Feb. 1: African American Pioneers in Flight ...

Joe Howard, a Linden artist, sculpted an African American soldier from the United States Colored Troops. The statue was recently unveiled in Franklin, Tennessee, to international praise.

Abraham Galloway was an African American who escaped enslavement in North Carolina, became a Union spy during the Civil War and recruited Black soldiers to fight with the North. That's the short ...

The American Revolution 07:09. Martha Teichner reports on the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, which features a look at how the war changed life for African Americans and Native ...

Fort Huachuca was an incubator of sorts for some prominent people, African-American and otherwise, in the military. One standout figure during the buffalo soldiers' time at Fort Huachuca was Col ...

The walls of the South Carolina Senate will soon include a portrait of a local African American whose remarkable life included fighting in the Civil War as a Union Army soldier in the famed 54th ...

Over the years, many important African American landmarks have disappeared or fallen into disrepair. An effort to restore them promises a fuller understanding of American history as a whole.

Untold Stories | Yosemite's Buffalo Soldiers. Special | 11m 27s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Find out about the work of ranger Shelton Johnson and his rediscovery of the story of the African ...

POWELL: 167 African American soldiers were discharged without honor for a crime that they didn't do. QUINTARD: Many of those soldiers had served with distinction for 20 years.

Goode was a prominent figure in Arizona politics. He was the second African American elected to the Phoenix City Council when he took office in 1971.