The Tuskegee Airmen Are Not DEI, As Air Force Reinstates Curriculum On First Black Pilots
President’s Trump's push to eliminate DEI from Federal agencies through Executive Orders almost took out the story of an ...
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Pioneering Black Army general who lived in El Paso dies at 100
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Edward Greer, who broke racial barriers during his long Army career, died at age 100 at his El Paso ...
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She Became The First African American Woman To Serve As The U.S. Surgeon General In 1993 And Advocated For Better Health Education For American Children
One of those people is Dr. Joycelen Elders, the first African American woman to serve as the U.S. Surgeon General and a passionate advocate for public health and education. Joycelyn was born in ...
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‘Buffalo Soldier’ Exhibit Highlights Role of Black Service Members in Philippine-American War
Of those leaders to be commissioned, one later became the U.S. military’s first African-American general officer, said Acosta. “Benjamin O. Davis Sr. was one of these men,” he said. “Davis Sr. was the ...
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BLACK AMERICANS IN THE U.S. ARMY
Learn more about Brigadier General Charles Edward McGee "I found ... In 2020, the Black or African American population — 41.1 million — accounted for 12.4% of all people living in the United ...
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The Kennedys and Civil Rights
Yet, once in office, he and his brother Robert, the attorney general, sought to avoid too ... blocking his domestic program. The African American movement for equal rights had been building ...