The 54 th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and Colonel Shaw are memorialized on the Boston Common with a monument considered one of the most important installations of public art in the country. The ...

Lt. Gen. Gary Brito, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1, United States Army, and Brig. Gen. Thomas Stewart, Massachusetts National Guard, with members of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment, a ...

During the Civil War, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment was composed of free black men who volunteered as soldiers to fight against the Confederacy.

Host Tavis Smiley interviews actor and director Morgan Freeman about the story of the Massachusetts 54th Colored Regiment. Freeman co-starred in the movie Glory based on the 54th, and narrated a ...

A memorial dedicated to the first African American regiment in the Northern army during the Civil War is undergoing a major renovation, one officials said will help give these men and their ...

Fox News host Lawrence Jones visited the Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial, dedicated to one of the first African-American regiments to fight for the Union Army during the ...

The regiment was commended and honored for their bravery and sacrifice. The legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment lives on to this day. They were immortalized in poems, movies, and art.

Beverly Morgan-Welch, Executive Director of the Museum of African American History, talked about the role and contributions of Boston's free Black community and the 54th Regiment in the fight ...

Westside Legends, in partnership with Berkshire County NAACP, Rites of Passage and Empowerment program and Milltown Funding, seeks an artist or artist team to lead a three month painted mural project ...

A memorial depicting the famed 54th Massachusetts Civil War regiment has been defaced. Investigators said a woman pulled up in a car Tuesday afternoon and splashed the statue with yellow paint.

The 54 th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and Colonel Shaw are memorialized on the Boston Common with a monument considered one of the most important installations of public art in the country. The ...

No other monument has inspired as much literary or musical works of art as the Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial, said Blight.