UMES' vet school will "change the landscape," Kairo said, and fill multiple needs in a profession where Black people make up only 3% of the workforce. "We are hoping that our new school will open ...

In 1944, the GI Bill lifted a generation into the middle class — but excluded Black vets who served their country at war and came home to segregation. A bill in Congress aims to fix that.

The new data shows that from FY 2017 to FY 2023 that trend has decreased slightly, but a higher percentage of Black vets are still denied PTSD benefits than white vets. VA press secretary ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MCDONOUGH: Black vets have served and sacrificed for this country in every conflict we fought, and particularly so in those conflicts covered by the PACT Act.

LAWRENCE: Just months later, an avowed white supremacist killed a 66-year-old Black man in New York City with a sword. It turned out the murderer was a fellow Army vet Brookshire had deployed with.