Looking to teach your family about the rich and storied heritage of Black people who migrated out of the American South to parts north and west during the 19th and 20th centuries? Make that lesson come to life by taking Amtrak’s California Zephyr from Chicago to Denver, and visit cultural landmarks in each city. View the photo gallery for […]
President Barack Obama has used the second term of his presidency to make a series of moves that have figured prominently in defining the African-American…
VIA WASHINGTON POST: Joseph Hairston enlisted in the Army in 1940 as an 18-year-old and still remembers the cold stares and disgusted gazes of his white commanding officers. Hairston, 87, served in the 599th Field Artillery Battalion and became one of the Army’s first black commissioned officers. He deployed to Italy in 1944 and, like […]
