WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National Museum of African American History and Culture a few ...

Argosy ship of World War I still inspires with its spirit of generosity and hope, writes guest columnist William Lambers about U.S. WWI relief efforts during Easter 1915 that aimed to help starving ...

Despite two decades of relative peace, the country has the smallest Army of anywhere in Africa, with just 1,500 soldiers ...

Sgt. Henry Johnson is an African American World War I hero from Albany. He’s perhaps best-known for fighting off a raid of German soldiers to save the lives of his fellow Americans. Johnson’s ...

Now a website honoring Sgt. Henry Johnson has gone down. Johnson is an African-American World War I hero from Albany, known for fighting off a raid of German soldiers to save the lives of his ...

Even during the American Revolutionary War, Bunce Island was caught in ... drawing people from around the world - especially African Americans whose ancestors may have passed through the island.

announced the introduction of a pair of bills to commemorate the life and legacy of African American Mess Attendant Doris “Dorie” Miller. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, Mess Attendant ...

Their stories were not well preserved in art or textbooks, yet recent scholarship in Concord and Lexington aims to uncover ...

THE world’s poorest nations are once again discovering what it means to be peripheral to power. In the latest chapter of 21st ...

Today in Sports, April 15 - Jackie Robinson becomes 1st African-American to play in U.S. major league baseball ...

When I first read Smalls’ speech while researching political violence in the years after the Civil War, I was stunned. Most estimates of postwar killings of African-Americans amount to about ...