Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

Four local Black men made history as members of the Montford Point Marines, the first Black unit to serve in the Marine Corps ...

Usually when we think of World War 2, images of allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy during the invasion of Europe come to mind.

In celebration of Quincy's quadricentennial, Mayor Thomas Koch highlights two prominent women: Grace Eng Toy and Harriet ...

Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

In cities in the West and North, they found opportunities for skilled jobs, decent wages on par with their white counterparts ... on the World War II years, which brought so many Black people ...

Its mandate was subsequently expanded to include World War II casualties ... 11,500 South Africans – white and Black – who lost their lives in the Great War have been commemorated in some ...

The 1940s was a time when our entire world was at war, and people wanted their version of an escape. It makes sense that this ...

Donald Trump’s measures ending government diversity efforts are part of a much broader effort to reverse civil rights gains ...

Feb. 27 — In 1869, John Willis Menard rose from his seat in the chamber of the U.S. Congress to defend his status as the ...

After a rough January, perhaps some Angelenos would like to roll back the clock this Valentine’s Day. From historic venues ...