CHICAGO — David West was 9 years old when Phillip Pannell — an African American teenager in his Teaneck, N.J., neighborhood — was shot in the back and killed by a white police officer ...

Susan King, 97, of Baltimore, Maryland, and Hilda McDougald, 101, of Washington, D.C., are among the estimated 600,000 African American women who worked in industry and government during World War II.

Gayle Anderson was live in San Pedro with a preview of Battleship IOWA’s presentation of the film Invisible Warriors, Tuesday, February 25th, 6:30 pm. Invisible Warriors tells the stories of the ...

African Americans in World War II Professor Bielakowski is no stranger to the debate over minorities in combat for the United States, as evidenced by his previous writings. Proud Warriors is in ...

African-Americans have made a vast contribution for the history of South Carolina throughout it over 300-year history. The African-American story lies at the very heart of our heritage.

They were the Black warriors of the segregated American armed forces. Denied a send-off parade in New York before shipping out in 1917, ... another African-American unit that fought here in 1918.

The statue, "Rumors of War," is artist Kehinde Wiley's first public work of art. It echoes statues of generals on horseback but this warrior is African American, in dreadlocks and Nike shoes.

O n the first day of one of the first AP African American Studies classes ever taught, Marlon Williams-Clark rattled off a list of Black luminaries to see how many his students had heard of.. Only ...

One of the most pernicious allegations made against the African-American people was that our slave ancestors were either exceptionally “docile” or “content and loyal,” thus explaining ...