The Army story cannot be told without reflecting ... Michael Lee Lanning, author, "The African-American Soldier: From Crispus Attucks to Colin Powell" Image above: "The Old Flag Never Touched ...

The Tuskegee Airmen were assigned to the 99th Pursuit (later Fighter) Squadron, Twelfth Air Force, and initially stationed in ...

The USS Beloit, a littoral combat ship, was commissioned Saturday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with the first African American ...

Maj. Gen. Marcia Anderson became the first African-American woman to achieve the rank of major general in 2011.

AFRICAN-AMERICAN women who served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II played a role in bringing about changes in segregationist U.S. military policy, a new book by a UB sociologist has found ...

The team then used all of that information to identify the African American military veterans buried there. According to ...

Two African-American Army sergeants, Cornelius H. Charlton and William Thompson, earned the Medal of Honor. The 1960s marked a major transformation for African-American citizens in the United States.

At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the exhibition Double Victory: The African American Military Experience provides visitors a valuable overview. You can read a story from ...

In the Korean War, 80 percent of military deaths were white; 8.4 percent were African-American. In Vietnam the military death ratio was 85.6 percent white to 12.4 percent black. In the first Gulf ...

Almost 200,000 African-American soldiers fought for the Union in the Civil War ... The 129 letters in this collection were written by black soldiers in the Union army during the Civil War to black and ...