Juneteenth, the June 19th federal holiday that commemorates the end of America’s slavocracy and celebrates freedom for ...

Two members of U.S. Congress are among the supporters of a museum director’s campaign to upgrade a District of Columbia memorial-museum complex that highlights the contributions of Black ...

The trees around the African American Civil War Memorial have been trimmed, and the grass is freshly cut and cleared of trash. Several leaks have been fixed. But a few of the 209,145 names of ...

Smith has been working toward this moment since 1992, when, as a DC Council member, he secured congressional permission to ...

Founded in 1999, The African American Civil War Memorial Museum (AACWM) shares the largely unknown stories of the USCT who fought for freedom. The Museum aims to serve as an educational resource ...

But few Americans are aware of the holiday’s roots in the Civil War’s aftermath, and of the heavy influence of African-Americans in the early celebrations of what used to be called Decoration Day.

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser helped break ground on the future African American Civil War Memorial Museum housed at the Grimke School in an Oct. 17 ceremony. The museum tells the stories of ...

Washington D.C.’s African American Civil War Memorial and Museum offers the military community an opportunity to educate themselves about some of the most underappreciated protagonists in the ...

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(WJLA) - One of Washington's memorials to those who served America in battle has been damaged by gunfire. MPD officials say that the African American Civil War Memorial, the monument that stands ...

The 54th Massachusetts Regiment — the Union's first African-American regiment of the Civil War — fell to Confederate troops at the battle at Fort Wagner, S.C. 150 years ago today.

Kevin Douglass Greene stood Saturday in front of the bronze African-American Civil War Memorial and the tears began. Standing ramrod straight, the Army staff sergeant stood soldier to soldier with … ...