Leading historians aim to restore and grow respect for enslaved people and their descendants on Juneteenth, commemorating the ...

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 ...

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 … ...

If you’re in Washington, D.C., don’t miss the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum at 1925 Vermont Ave NW. It’s open all year, but Memorial Day weekend has special programming with ...

Primary sources for teaching and learning about African-Americans who fought in the Civil War. African-American Civil War Memorial and Museum .

My great-great-great-great grandfather Hewlett Sands, born into slavery in Oyster Bay, New York in 1820, was one of the more than 200,000 names listed on the African American Civil War Memorial in ...

More than 200,000 African American soldiers fought for the union in the American Civil War. Just a few days after Memorial Day, new markers with the name, dates of birth and death, rank and ...

Jackson Green, an activist from Utah, has been arrested and charged with defacing a memorial to Black Civil War soldier at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC last autumn.

Battles was an African American Civil War soldier and one of Moorhead's first residents around 1873. He later opened one of the city's first barber shops. Chris Flynn / The Forum ...

Unionville, a historic town in Talbot County founded by African Americans who fought in the Civil War, was home to an early Memorial Day remembrance today organized by the Col.

Members of the Cumberland County community rallied together for an annual Observance of Memorial Day at a historic African American cemetery. To stream FOX43 on your phone, you need the FOX43 app ...