Pentagon Agency Pauses Celebrations for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month and More The Defense Department's intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust...
Tuskegee Airmen, WASP History Will Stay in Air Force Boot Camp Curriculum Following Outcry The Air Force is resuming its boot camp lessons about trailblazing Black and female World War II pilots after the material...
Hear Firsthand Accounts from 'The Six Triple Eight' in a Free Online Documentary Screening The trailblazing soldiers depicted in the Netflix film are featured in a free virtual screening of an informative documentary...
The Tuskegee Airmen: A Tribute to Military Pioneers A brief history of this groundbreaking World War II air crew.
'We'll Be Back For You': Jesse Brown and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir At a time when the United States was still divided by segregation, Navy pilots Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner were a model of...
9 Black Veterans Who Blazed a Path in Hollywood These nine military veterans have made a huge impact in movies and television.
Famous Vet Colin Powell Became First Black Secretary of State in US Gen. Colin Powell, a son of Jamaican immigrants, rose to the top of the U.S. military.
Getting to Know the First Black Navy SEALs Fred "Tiz" Morrison and William Goines were Black pioneers in naval special warfare and generally acknowledged to be the...
What You Should Know About the Tuskegee Airmen The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of Black pilots who helped the Allies win World War II -- and helped break the military...
The Tuskegee Airmen Won the First Air Force 'Top Gun' Aerial Gunnery Competition Lt. Col. James Harvey, one of the Tuskegee Airmen, called winning the Air Force's "Top Gun" competition in 1949 "the...
Air Force Unveils New Policies on Shaving, Nail Polish, Hair Length in Leaked Memos Medical shaving waivers for thousands of airmen and Space Force Guardians will be reset and reevaluated, according to new...
Trump Orders Pentagon Policy Saying Transgender Troops Are 'Not Consistent' with Military Ideals The order, which follows actions Trump took last week to lay the groundwork for it, gives the Pentagon 30 days to report back...
White House Funding Freeze Stokes Uncertainty for Military Families as Raft of Programs Under Review An announcement late Monday from the Office of Management and Budget panicked military family members who feared losing...
VA Says 44 Programs Will Continue After Review Required by Trump Federal Funding Freeze In a statement released late Tuesday, department officials said all programs would continue uninterrupted.
'No One Knows Who He Is': Trump's Pick for Army Secretary Faces Confirmation Hearing The relatively obscure financier and political adviser, who is also a veteran, is set to lead the Pentagon's largest branch...
![](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-01/1time%20six%20triple%20eight%20kerry%20washington%201200.jpg?itok=ehCBEYJ6 "Kerry Washington in "The Six Triple Eight." (Netflix)")
![Black Veterans Hollywood](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-02/blackveteranshollywood.jpg?itok=2qBTESCd "Sidney Poitier in "It Happened One Night," Richard Pryor in "Live on the Sunset Strip," and Morgan Freeman in "The Shawshank Redemption."")
