Four local Black men made history as members of the Montford Point Marines, the first Black unit to serve in the Marine Corps ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...

President Woodrow Wilson is known for showing Birth of a Nation in the White House and leading the Second Wave of the Ku Klux ...

Just weeks after former Rep. Abigail Spanberger left the U.S. House for good, she strolled onto the floor of a different ...

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first and only Black airmen to fly in World ... the experience of hundreds of qualified female pilots. Commanding General Hap Arnold in 1942 formed a squadron of ...

She was the first woman in France to reach the rank of general officer, ultimately wearing the three stars of Inspector General of the Army Medical Corps.

Valérie André, a French aviator and parachutist who became the first woman to become a general officer in France, has died FILE - Valerie Andre, a French Army captain, doctor and helicopter ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegrated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...