9 Black Veterans Who Blazed a Path in Hollywood These nine military veterans have made a huge impact in movies and television.
'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...
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...
The Tuskegee Airmen: A Tribute to Military Pioneers A brief history of this groundbreaking World War II air crew.
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...
The Air Force Pilot Who Fought to Desegregate the Airline Industry When Marlon Green applied to Continental Airlines in 1957, he didn't put his race on the application.
At a Civil War Battlefield in Mississippi, There's a New Effort to Include More Black History In recent years, the National Park Service has broadened how it presents history in parks nationwide.
How the 3 Living Black Medal of Honor Recipients Embody the Military’s Top Award On Jan. 10, 1968, Private 1st Class Clarence Sasser was part of a reconnaissance mission in southern Vietnam when his...
Navy Drops Disciplinary Efforts Against 2 Navy Officers After Death of SEAL Candidate Kyle Mullen Vice Adm. Rick Cheeseman decided to stop the boards of inquiry for Capt. Brad Geary, the commander of the Navy SEAL training...
Army Veteran Sentenced to Death for Killing 5 Women at a Florida Bank Zephen Xaver appeared to gulp but otherwise showed no emotion as Circuit Judge Angela Cowden pronounced the sentence at the...
More than Half of Senior Army Officers Are Turning Down Command Consideration More than half of the Army's senior officers are turning down opportunities to command, choosing instead the stability of...
Army Set to Debut Master Combat Badges in Spring, Memo Says The Army is set to begin awarding Master Combat Badges, which will combine expert and traditional combat badges, next spring...
Pentagon Officials, Aviation Experts Say Many Alleged Drone Sightings Are Being Misidentified The sightings in New Jersey and elsewhere, which so far remained unconfirmed, have triggered widespread concern and demands...
![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."")
