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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onMay 20, 2013
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Life took him from a daring sea escape to a stint in Congress.
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May 14, 2013
Tracing Your Roots: A white reader wants to learn about a Civil War vet interred with his ancestors.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onFebruary 25, 2013
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Before the Tuskegee Airmen, there was Eugene Jacques Bullard.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onDecember 31, 2012
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: It was formed long before the Emancipation Proclamation.
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by Lynette Holloway onJuly 23, 2012
Take a road trip following in the footsteps of the Civil War's black enlisted men.
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by Akoto Ofori-Atta onMay 23, 2012
These memorials celebrate our fallen men in uniform, from the Tuskegee Airmen to buffalo soldiers.
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by Lynette Holloway onJanuary 31, 2012
The 86-year-old is happy the Montford Point Marines are finally getting recognition.
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by Lynette Holloway onJanuary 31, 2012
From Crispus Attucks to the Montford Point Marines, blacks have a deep history of military service.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onJanuary 26, 2012
A first lady, a civil rights icon and a pilot aided the Tuskegee Airmen, says Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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by Edmund Newton onJanuary 13, 2012
One of the first black Marines, Theodore Peters, tells The Root why he still serves his community after all these years.
