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...
Naval Academy Staff Removed Display on Female Jewish Graduates for Hegseth Visit The U.S. Naval Academy has confirmed that officials there removed items commemorating female Jewish graduates from a historic...
'The Greatest Soldier in American History' Took a Tank Round to the Leg and Kept Fighting The only reason Matt Urban didn't receive the Medal of Honor for single-handedly breaking an entire battalion through France...
My Black Roommate Opened My Eyes to an Air Force I Didn’t Know Existed I realized I had been sheltered from much of the world's ugliness and was more than a little naive. I thought the problems I...
4 US Soldiers Who Died in Lithuania Swamp When Their Vehicle Sank Are Identified The recovery operation for the bodies and the M88 was an intricate and arduous weeklong process, enlisting the expertise of...
How Comic Legend Mel Brooks Defused Land Mines During World War II Brooks participated in the Battle of the Bulge -- Germany's final major offensive on the Western Front -- but to his...
![](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."")
