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Showing posts with label US Army. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US Army. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Fort Polk renamed Fort Johnson to honor African American WWI hero

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As part of the national campaign to change the names of U.S. Army installations to cut ties with Confederate figures in America, Louisia...
Monday, July 04, 2022

Louisiana Army base named after confederate general could be renamed after African American soldier

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During the Jim Crow era, nine Southern Army bases were named for treasonous Confederate generals who fought to preserve slavery and white ...
Friday, May 20, 2022

General Lee Avenue in Fort Hamilton renamed for Black Vietnam War hero

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BROOKLYN NY - After years of controversy, Fort Hamilton has removed the name of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from an avenue on the B...
Saturday, April 30, 2022

A century after his death, the first Black US Army colonel is promoted to general

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On Friday, Col. Charles Young, West Point Class of 1889, was posthumously promoted to the rank of Brig. Gen. by Secretary Army Honorable C...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Houston Law School & NAACP to Continue Fight for Clemency for Camp Logan Soldiers Unjustly Convicted, Punished in Houston in 1917

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A large crowd of community leaders gathered at South Texas College of Law Houston (STCL Houston) Friday to officially commemorate the law ...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

Sgt. Alwyn Cashe becomes 1st African American recipient of Medal of Honor since 9/11

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President Joe Biden on Thursday awarded the Medal of Honor -- the nation's highest military award for valor -- to three U.S. soldiers ...
Sunday, April 04, 2021

82nd Airborne welcomes first African-American female brigade command sergeant major

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The 82nd Airborne Division welcomed Command Sergeant Major Tonya Sims during a change of responsibility ceremony. Sims is the first Af...
Saturday, February 20, 2021

Rosetta Ellis-Pilie Named ESPN Vice President, Talent Development and Negotiations

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Accomplished ESPN executive Rosetta Ellis-Pilie has been named ESPN Vice President, Talent Development and Negotiations, effective May 1, ...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Tuskegee Airman from N.J. dies at 101

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Tuskegee Airmen Malcolm Nettingham, 101, of Scotch Plains, NJ died Monday. He would have been 102 on Oct. 1. “He said he was not a hero...
Sunday, January 26, 2020

RIP U.S. Army Spc. Antonio I. Moore

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In a release from the Department of Defense on Saturday, it was announced that Spc. Antonio I. Moore of Wilmington, N.C. died while deplo...
Friday, August 23, 2019

99-year-old Tuskegee Airman awarded five overdue WWII medals

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99-year-old Thomas Franklin Vaughns served in the Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1946 as a mechanic for the Tuskegee Airman and was also la...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

1st African American named Nevada Guard’s adjutant general

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60-year-old Brig. Gen. Ondra Berry; a 32-year veteran of the National Guard has been named as Nevada’s first African-American adjutant g...
Monday, August 05, 2019

Glendon Oakley: Army soldier hailed as hero in El Paso shooting

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An off-duty Army serviceman is being celebrated as a hero after he saved the lives of several children during Saturday’s deadly mass sho...
Thursday, July 04, 2019

Congressional Black Caucus wants posthumous Medal of Honor for African American soldier

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The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is pushing for an African American soldier to be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his ac...
Tuesday, July 02, 2019

Tuskegee Airman gets diploma 80 years after high school

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James Shipley, who was unable to finish high school but went on to serve as crew chief for the famed Tuskegee Airman has received an ho...
Sunday, June 23, 2019

Tuskegee Airman Who Flew 142 WWII Combat Missions Dies at 99

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World War II pilot Robert Friend, one of the last original members of the famed all-black Tuskegee Airmen, has died at the age of 99. ...
Friday, June 07, 2019

Cadet killed in West Point accident identified

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The Army has identified the West Point cadet who was killed in a vehicle roll-over accident Thursday. Cadet Christopher J. Morgan, a m...
Tuesday, June 04, 2019

He Served With D-Day’s Only African-American Combat Unit. His Widow Is Still Fighting for His Medal of Honor

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Seventy-five years after American troops landed in smoke, fire and chaos on the beaches of Normandy, France, a Maryland woman is fightin...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

West Point graduates 34 African-American women, the most ever from one class

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Thirty-four black women are expected to graduate from West Point next week. That will be the largest class of African-American women t...
Sunday, July 08, 2018

African-American veterans monument in Buffalo will be first in U.S.

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Buffalo is expected to receive national attention soon, for the construction of a monument that will be the first of its kind in the co...