Following passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, activist organizations like the NAACP ramped up efforts to elect more black officials, operating on the assumption that black political ...

Black History Month usually celebrates the accomplishments of past and current Black heroes. In closing out Black History Month in 2025, it felt like anything but a celebration of Black people.

Despite wearing our nation’s uniform, my allegiance has never been to its flag but to its people — namely, Black people. This tension has permanently colored my perspective on patriotism.

“It looked at the last 20 years of racial disparities and disability allocation, which ties to a historical thread of the ways in which Black vets have been locked out of their benefits ...

Veterans Administration disability payments could grow by 17% overall for Black veterans — with increases from nearly $2,000 to $10,000 annually for many vets — and could decrease by 1.15% for ...

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 ...

Fewer black veterans receive disability compensation for mental health conditions than white vets (13% vs. 22%). Black vets also have a 6% lower grant rate for those injuries than their white peers.

The bricks will be inscribed with racial justice messages, including "Black Vets Matter!" They will also bear the names of Black military trailblazers, such as the Tuskegee Airmen. The statue, for now ...

The bricks will be inscribed with racial justice messages, including “Black Vets Matter!” They will also bear the names of Black military trailblazers, such as the Tuskegee Airmen. The statue ...

The worst abuses, of course, were in the South, where 79 percent of all Black veterans lived; in some Southern states, a group representing Black veterans said in 1947, postmasters wouldn’t even ...

Some of the buildings here date back a century, to a time when Black soldiers returning from World War I, found healthcare hard to come by in the U.S. "I kind of think of this as where health ...