However, as World War II loomed, the pressing need for skilled aviators led to a significant ... Thanks, in part, to their wartime service and that of other Black units (over 1.2 million African ...

He was just one of 26 African American soldiers who received the Medal of Honor during the Civil War. After the war, ...

Over 12,000 Native American soldiers fought in World War I. A Congressional panel has found 25 who might deserve the Medal of ...

Since the start of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has exported gold worth $2.5 billion from Africa. According to a report by ...

Since the start of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has exported gold worth £2 billion from Africa. According to the World ...

videoThe Chinese Labour Corps in World War One David Olusoga investigates the contribution of the least acknowledged group from the Empire - Chinese labourers. The experience of African American ...

As the deadliest war in United States history, the Civil War is a period many would like to forget. However, it’s impossible ...

We need to be honest enough with ourselves to say the meanness and sadness of Americans is not a new phenomenon ...

A contractor for Amtrak removed the final ruins of an 1866 rail bridge from the Susquehanna River last month, despite ...

But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the ...

But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s, which partnered with the modern Civil Rights Movement. In ...