In "Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968," Thomas Ricks says the movement was able to topple Jim Crow because it acted the way a successful military acts.

Legal experts said the president’s executive order would upend precedent and is unlikely to pass constitutional muster.

WASHINGTON — Organizations representing noncitizen military veterans whose federal criminal convictions make them vulnerable to deportation are urging President Biden to use his pardon power to ensure ...

In his new book, The Double V, Rawn James Jr. argues that to understand race in America one must understand the history of African-Americans in the military. While the turning point came between ...

More than 60 years after a white supremacist assassinated civil ... use of military resources against protesters in Los Angeles who were demonstrating against immigration enforcement actions. Two-time ...

GENEVA — For the first time in nine years, the United Nations Human Rights Committee this week reviewed U.S. compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The ...

FORT LEE, Va. (Feb. 23, 2017) -- Medgar Evers, a World War II veteran who participated in the famed Red Ball Express logistical effort, marched head-first into the teeth of the civil rights ...

Created by the government after emancipation in 1863, the nearly 200,000 Black soldiers helped the Union win a decisive victory in the Civil War.

One chapter has remained largely hidden for decades: how the United States Army, during the early years of the civil rights movement, dealt with the crucible issues of race and capital punishment.

The administration announced that civil rights leaders' names would be removed from Navy ships, but Trump wants to bring back Confederate base names.

President Trump will restore seven more Army base names that originally honored Confederate military figures — but with different namesakes.

"Everyone should be given a chance," said Ramirez. "African American men and women of the United States military have set the example, not just for African American Soldiers, but all Soldiers." ...