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

In tribute to the extraordinary African-American veterans who served in the United States military, this week, the AFRO honors eight servicemembers across the United States Coast Guard ...

This Veterans Day, the Maryland National Guard and Governor Wes Moore posthumously commissioned Harriet Tubman as a one-star ...

The AFRO honors U.S. military veterans at a salute to Carroll A. Durham, Arnold H. Sampson Jr., Perlisa D. Wilson, and other ...

In the last few years, there has been a spate of military coups in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan and Guinea. Military rule ...

Doug Melville, author of "Invisible Generals", recently shared the powerful and deeply personal story of his family’s remarkable legacy in a heartfelt interview with TMJ4's Andrea Williams.

The team then used all of that information to identify the African American military veterans buried there. According to Davenport-Jacobs, they found several hundred. “We work really hard to ...

"His long and distinguished career as a commissioned officer in the United States Army made him a popular figure of his time ...

Military films and television series have long been a staple of entertainment, often depicting the valor and sacrifice of soldiers.

One of contentious parts of the history of the American Civil War is the question of whether southern blacks served as ...

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

John A. Andrews, the governor of Massachusetts at the time of the Civil War, recruited Tubman to the Union Army shortly after the war began. Tubman was the first African American woman to serve in ...