For more than 20 years, a group of Black military veterans has gathered at a McDonald’s in North Miami-Dade for breakfast every morning of the year, except for Christmas.
The Equal Justice Initiative nonprofit invoked the Juneteenth holiday as it dedicated a monument that honors the people who endured and survived slavery. The National Monument to Freedom, inscribed with the surnames that formerly enslaved people chose for themselves after being emancipated at the Civil War’s end, is the centerpiece of the new Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama.
‘The Bikeriders’ director Nichols and stars Butler, Comer and Hardy discuss bringing Danny Lyon’s New Journalism-style book of the same name to life.
The telegram, addressed to Henry E. Battle, a prominent physician in Andalusia, Ala., was dated April 14, 1918; the time stamped 2:34 a.m. “The Navy Collier Cyclops on which your son, Lee Otis Battle, seaman second class, U.S.N., was a member of the crew is overdue at an Atlantic Port since March thirteenth.”
When he first came to Valor Pointe, Boise’s only permanent supportive housing complex exclusively for formerly homeless veterans, Army veteran David Ketchum said he had been homeless for so long he didn’t know how to operate the communal washing machines or cook for himself.
I have a very strong sense of connection to the idea Hewlett Sands risked his life for not just his family, but for a higher ideal. I think all those men shared a sense of doing something that was going to impact generations that they would never meet.
Willie Mays, a perennial all-star center fielder for the New York and San Francisco Giants in the 1950s and ’60s whose powerful bat, superb athletic grace and crafty baseball acumen earned him a place with Babe Ruth atop the game’s roster of historic greats, died June 18. He was 93.
A veterans cemetery will be built in Anaheim Hills in Orange County, Calif., the first in the county.
Bob Schul, an Air Force veteran who was the only American distance runner to win gold in the 5,000 meters at the Olympics, has died. He was 86.
William “Bill” Goines, the first Black man to serve as a Navy SEAL, died this week. He was 88.
More than two dozen Black veterans whose military service spans World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War will embark Wednesday on the first-ever honor flight to commemorate Juneteenth at war memorials and monuments in the nation’s capital.
The Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Aurora still cannot identify the residue that has forced the hospital to postpone or move hundreds of surgeries since April.
As an 22-year-old in 1967, Bob Zaugh had found a purpose in his life more important than school, career or even freedom. It was a recognition of the commonality of all humans that meant he could not support the Vietnam War or the system that sent young men to fight in it.
Paralyzed veterans seeking disability exams increasingly face long delays to see doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs and a network of community providers ill-equipped to support their complex health needs, according to House lawmakers.
The last known active-duty soldier to have a father who fought in World War II is retiring, but not before he takes one last step to keep the memory of the Greatest Generation alive.
Veterans advocacy groups on Wednesday urged House lawmakers to update eligibility rules and payment rates for a little-known program that gives a tax-free monthly benefit to veterans who are unable to work but lack a 100% disability rating.
An Army veteran was killed in an officer-involved shooting in Casper, Wyo. on Thursday. The coroner reported that Trae Stewart Spurlock, a retired Army sergeant, was shot 9 times. Casper police have asked the state’s criminal investigation division to open an investigation into the shooting.
A voucher program exclusively for veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness will receive $78 million to fund rental assistance for thousands of veterans under a partnership between HUD and the VA.
Virginia lawmakers are considering cutting college tuition assistance currently offered to spouses and children of veterans killed, missing, captured or left permanently disabled while serving. Military families are pushing back against the potential changes, arguing that Va. lawmakers are ignoring the sacrifices they made.