The 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, composed entirely of African American soldiers, played a crucial role in the D-Day invasion, providing protection from enemy aircraft and saving countless lives.

At least 65 African Americans from East Texas served in the Harlem Hellfighters, one of World War I’s most decorated units.

ST. LOUIS – In a relentless rainstorm, a groundbreaking ceremony was held, attributing to the sacrifice of African American soldiers during the Civil War. “The troops could go out if our military ...

The Second Italo-Ethiopian War and the Spanish Civil War offered Melva L. Price and her fellow female activists an ...

Democracy at war : African Americans, citizenship, and the meanings of military service -- The "race question" : the U.S. government and the training experiences of African American soldiers -- The ...

Let us all be grateful that we have colored troops that will fight / John David Smith -- An ironic route to glory : Louisiana's native guards at Port Hudson / Lawrence Lee Hewitt -- Battle on the ...

Maryland officials to vote on using $402,000 for a memorial to Black Revolutionary War soldiers Proposed memorial site would include area where Roger Taney statue once stood Would be first such ...

WESTWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- On this Veterans Day, World War I Sgt. Henry Johnson is being remembered and honored at the Los Angeles National Cemetery in Westwood. Johnson was one of the ...

Back to U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF) GABES, Tunisia — A stevedore shouted over the diesel hum of cranes as the first storage container was lifted out of the cargo ship and ...

Robert Reed Church was among them. Once a slave, he became one of the South’s most powerful figures and one of America’s ...

Beyoncé Knowles-Carter wore a Buffalo Soldiers T-shirt during her Juneteenth performance in Paris, sparking online debate over the group's complicated legacy in U.S. history. During her international ...

Yosemite National Park ranger Shelton Johnson wears the uniform of a Buffalo Soldier while saddled on his horse during the Yosemite Grant sesquicentennial ceremony at Yosemite National Park’s Mariposa ...