The Six Triple Eight cleared a years-long backlog of mail in just three months. Eighty years later, the unit is finally ...

The Senate voted on legislation to bestow the award in 2021 ... West Midlands, England, in February 1945. Black women were virtually excluded from military service until the start of World War II, ...

The race to replace retiring Sen. Dick Durbin is heating up. U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly joined “Chicago Tonight” to discuss the ...

The only Black, all-female unit serving in Europe during World War II received the Congressional Gold Medal on Tuesday at the United States Capitol.

She is the first person to declare their candidacy. Her potential election is also historic, as two Black women–U.S. Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland ...

And like many Black units during World War II ... co-sponsored the medal legislation in the Senate. “When these women returned home, there was no parade to greet them. No one lined the streets ...