For enslaved Black Americans living through the Revolutionary War, freedom sometimes meant donning the red coat of the enemy.

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...

The sole British soldier charged with murder over the 1972 'Bloody Sunday' killings of 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights ...

Hi, I'm Nigel. You may know me from the TV. Now, as you can see, I'm black. I was born and grew up in this country, the United Kingdom, but my parents were born and grew up in the Caribbean.

While the Patriots were ultimately victorious in the American Revolution, choosing sides and deciding whether to fight in the war was far from an easy choice for American colonists. The great ...

A former British Army soldier who 'hit rock bottom' after a traumatic tour of Afghanistan has been locked up for attacking his ex-wife. Ellis Robinson acted like an 'untamed animal' when he violently ...

Femi: When World War One began in 1914, Britain was ill-equipped and undermanned. It would need to use the full resourcesof its Empire to have any hope of victory. Men, food and raw materials were ...

Pushing the boundaries of form, The Unknown Soldier reveals the untold stories of the young Black servicemen and women who contributed to the British war efforts during World War I and World War II.