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JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. – The Community Commons was abuzz with expressions of culture as it hosted a special Black History Month event Thursday, themed “African American and the Arts.” Attendees experienced music, fashion, poetry, and provisions, in a celebration aimed at both Department of Defense members and the base community. “Each February, the Department […]
Dear Editor: February is Black History Month. Proportionately, there are as many great Black citizens as there are White or Asian. Those of us in the High Country do not have to search outside our own territory to find such people. They are living among us now and some have passed on. As a representative […]
Booker 1. Cory Booker The U.S. Senator from New Jersey. Former Mayor of Newark. Fabiana Pierre-Louis The first African American woman in the state of New Jersey to become an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court occupies a position of gravitas. LeRoy Jones The Democratic State Party Chairman (and […]
What once was a Louisiana U.S. Army base named for a Confederate general today bears the name of a Black World War I U.S. Army private. It’s a complicated story that took more than a century to unfold, and there’s a Kansas City connection. “This was beyond anything we expected,” said Tara Johnson, daughter of […]
The Veterans Cemetery at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, looks like many others – headstones with name, rank, dates of birth and death, and wars fought. Headstones that each tell a story. Until you reach the row in which headstones, including one for Angela Holder’s great-uncle, Cpl. Jesse Moore, are memorialized only by […]
ARLINGTON, Va. – Leaders from Joint Base Andrews and Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, along with representatives from the Washington Nationals, gathered at Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate Black History Month to honor the legacy and contributions of Black Americans to the nation and its military, Feb. 2. The commemoration included two wreath-laying ceremonies, one at […]
This Black History Month is an excellent opportunity for Americans to celebrate the inspiring life and jurisprudence of Justice Clarence Thomas, the second black Supreme Court justice in our nation’s history (and now the 11th longest-serving justice in history) and the intellectual leader of the Supreme Court. Justice Thomas is our greatest living American. But […]
KARNS CITY, Pa. (KDKA) — Hospitalized Karns City quarterback Mason Martin’s family is getting support from Washington, D.C. Mason Martin has been in the hospital since suffering a significant brain bleed during a game in September and he just finished his first week of rehab after fighting off meningitis and another infection. On Saturday, his […]
Dec 14, 2023, 08:00 AM ET Larry Doby, who in 1947 became the second Black player to break baseball’s color barrier and led Cleveland to a World Series championship the following year, was honored Wednesday with the Congressional Gold Medal. Hall of Famer Doby, who died in 2003, was posthumously awarded the medal by congressional […]
Camp Logan, Circa 1917, now the site of Memorial Park Courtesy Memorial Park Conservancy The tragedy stemmed from an incident in 1917 at Camp Logan — now part of Memorial Park — when a clash between Black soldiers and whites escalated into a racial riot. That night, 17 people, including five police officers, were killed. […]