The Washington Informer1d
Bill to Honor Civil War’s Black Soldiers Reintroduced, Coinciding with Black History Month
The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...
Pieces of Our Past: The Snowden Memorial at Ellsworth Cemetery
Ellsworth Cemetery was founded by a small cadre of Black Civil War Veterans in 1876 to provide a burial ground for the ...
New Black history exhibit on Civil War era opens at Riley Museum
Library events: Leon County celebrates Black History Month with library events, resources ...
Chagrin Valley Today15d
Young Civil War buff shares passion with Chagrin History Center
Kartik, 15, a former resident of Moreland Hills who now resides in Mayfield, has been giving of his time each Saturday to both research and chronicle stories about the soldiers in the Civil War ...
AZ Central16d
Black History Month playlist: 25 songs of civil rights, protest and hope
"Alright" is one of three times on the album he references the 40 acres and a mule that formerly enslaved people were promised but didn't receive when the Civil War ended. And he touches on the root ...
Military Times22d
After 106 years, Black South African WWI troops honored with memorial
In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.
The Independent22d
Long forgotten, Black South African servicemen who died in WWI are finally honored with a memorial
Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have no known grave have been recognized with a memorial featuring 1,772 names. An inscription ...
Yahoo News New Zealand22d
Long forgotten, Black South African servicemen who died in WWI are finally honored with a memorial
Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have no known grave have been recognized with a memorial featuring 1,772 names. An inscription on ...
EURweb23d
Cape Town Memorial Honors 1,772 Black South African Servicemen Who Died in WWI
A new memorial in Cape Town honors 1,772 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles during World War I and have no known graves. According to The Associated Press, these men ...
BBC23d
South Africa's WW1 servicemen finally honoured at new memorial
Praise poets honour the servicemen, more than a century after World War One Hundreds of South African servicemen, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured with a new memorial ...
London Evening Standard23d
Anne lays wreath to honour black South African labourers in First World War
The Princess Royal said the Cape Town Labour Corps Memorial ... Britain’s war effort in east and south-west Africa. The memorial comprises a field of slim posts made from African Iroko hardwood ...
New York Post23d
NYC Mayor Adams likens himself to MLK as he defends bailing on civil rights holiday to attend Trump inauguration: ‘I’m living that dream’
Hizzoner likened himself to Martin Luther King Jr. on Tuesday as he defended bailing on events commemorating the civil rights icon to trek Washington, DC, to hail the new chief. He claimed MLK ...