became the first Black to hold star rank in the U.S ... including duty as the military attache to Liberia, were designed to avoid putting Davis in command of White troops or officers.

A former paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division who has been arrested said he enlisted to become more proficient at killing Black people and made overt references to white supremacy.

are almost entirely white and male. Of the 41 most senior commanders in the military — those with four-star rank in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard — only two are black: Gen ...

Young’s promotion retroactively makes him the first Black American recognized with that rank, the Army said ... he did not consign all of White America to the racist side of the ledger ...