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DAKAR, Senegal — Russian soldiers arrived in Niger this week, according to Nigerien state television, less than one month after the military junta announced that it was ending military agreements with the United States.
1 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Service members and families stationed at the Presidio of Monterey participate in the March for Remembrance, Monterey, Calif., Feb. 10. The march was led by Capt. Joseph McCall, far left, Chaplain for the 229th Military Intelligence Battalion. The march started at Lower Presidio Historic Park, and […]
During the Jim Crow era, the Black soldiers of the 24th Infantry Regiment were continuously harassed by racist police and white locals while stationed at Camp Logan, a military training camp in Houston. On August 23, 1917, Corporal Charles Baltimore was beaten and shot by police after interfering in the arrest of a Black woman. […]
VICKSBURG, Miss. – Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg National Military Park — the hilly battlefield where Union and Confederate soldiers fought and died over whether the U.S. would […]
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg National Military Park — the hilly battlefield where Union and Confederate soldiers fought and died over whether the U.S. […]
US News By Angelica Stabile , Fox News Published March 3, 2024, 6:08 p.m. ET An injured puppy has met her heroes. US soldiers deployed in the Middle East found Tiny Tammy lying in a pile of trash and unable to move her back legs. The soldiers recognized that she required immediate attention — but they were unable to […]
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg National Military Park — the hilly battlefield where Union and Confederate soldiers fought and died over whether the U.S. […]
VICKSBURG, Miss. — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg National Military Park — the hilly battlefield where Union and Confederate soldiers fought and died over whether the U.S. would […]
Afro Newspaper/Gado / Contributor / Getty Images In San Antonio, TX at the Veterans Cemetery at Fort Sam Houston, there is a row of headstones for soldiers missing the name, rank, date of birth, and the wars in which they fought. Who do these graves belong to? “Members of the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, […]
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 […]