Black female WWII unit, the "Six Triple Eight," was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest award that ...

Just last year, journalist Nguyen Vu Binh was sentenced to seven years of incarceration for daring to speak his mind. As ...

Clarence O. Smith, visionary co-founder of ESSENCE magazine and a pioneering force in Black media and marketing, died April ...

Smith, who passed away on April 21, helped to launch the magazine that would become a Black cultural staple in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, commonly known as the “Six Triple ...

The women were sent to Europe to clear a backlog of 17 million pieces of mail waiting to be sent to U.S. troops.

In this interview, Cheryl Thompson, author of ‘Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict and Freedom, ...

The Six Triple Eight sorted millions of pieces of wartime mail in a matter of months but weren't recognized publicly for ...