Smithsonian collections document the patriotic service of African Americans throughout our Nation's history, from the American Revolution up to today. At the National Museum of African American ...

In continuation of recognizing and celebrating Black History Month, WBBM shines a spotlight on the Fighting 8th. Overlooked, by their own military, Black regiments like the Fighting 8th become heroes ...

The hundreds of thousands of African Americans who served in the U.S. Army during World War I and returned home as heroes soon faced many more battles over their equality in American society. While ...

The tense atmosphere would explode that summer in New York City, in the worst riots in American history. The May 1, 1863 New York Tribune summed up many Northerners' feelings about African ...

When the U.S. military decided to assign three African American engineering regiments to the Alaska Highway project, it departed from its usual segregationist policies. Since the Civil War ...

The commander of the American Expeditionary Force, General John Pershing had refused to lead black soldiers into battle. Most of the third of a million African Americans drafted into the US Army ...

Alfonso Domingo, co-director of the documentary “Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War”, explains the unknown work of the men who defended the rights denied to them in ...