Black History Month: U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary honors officer
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 28, 2023
WASHINGTON, N.C. (WNCT) – During Black History Month, US Coast Guard Auxiliary officer Alvin Powell is being honored.
Powell is the president of the Inner Banks STEM Center. He’s also the staff diversity officer for the Coast Guard Auxiliary. But before all of this, he held many roles in Washington, D.C. including serving as Chief of the Counterterrorism Unit and investigating the 9/11 attack in New York.
He also was one of the first African-Americans to be . . .
