In 1971 “We the People” again expanded, to include younger people, with the lowering of the voting age from 21 to 18. The ongoing Vietnam War shifted public opinion, and there was popular support for ...

New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th centu ...

Dillard University will honor and memorialize 19 individuals whose crania were taken from New Orleans and sent to Leipzig, Germany, for racially-biased science in the 1880s.

Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could ...

Helping Hand Cemetery (HHC) in Courtland hosted a Memorial Day Program on Monday, May 26, that highlighted the veterans ...

Lawmakers have renewed an effort to award the Medal of Honor to Maj. James Capers Jr., a reconnaissance Marine who in 1967 ...

Despite criminal convictions, successive Republican and Democratic administrations have shielded them from deportation since ...

Months after celebrating the restoration of the Oak Tree Union Colored Cemetery of Taylorville, the city of Groveland honored veterans buried there during what was likely the first Memorial Day ...

Edward McFarland, a Vietnam War veteran, urges Americans to include Black servicemembers in Memorial Day remembrances.

Although Memorial Day now commemorates those who died in all wars, it began when Black people commemorated the Civil War in ...

Five decades after the Vietnam war ended, more Asian American and Pacific Islander veterans are reflecting on the ...

Memorial Day is a time to honor those who served and sacrificed for this country. But as veterans who dedicated our lives to ...