United States forces have killed a senior Islamic State commander and captured his wife during a raid in Syria. NY Daily News reports: Defense Secretary…
Great news for Baltimore students! The Thurgood Marshall College Fund has announced a new program to help engage students in STEM education, leading to both STEM literacy and an increase in the participation in the STEM workforce. If you didn’t know, STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math. The Vivian Burey Marshall STEM Pilot Initiative, in partnership with […]
Congresswomen Sheila Jackson Lee and Gwen Moore are two of 17 women in the Congressional Black Caucus. When news broke recently that the Pentagon was…
Wednesday, Roland Martin was joined by a panel of black women in the military to discuss a new Army ban on certain natural hairstyles. The…
Via Fox Baltimore The Maryland Army National Guard’s 1297th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion held its Freedom Salute ceremony to officially welcome the 75 member unit home from their year-long deployment in Afghanisstan. Watch the full video of the ceremony here.
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FORT KNOX, Ky.— For Marcia Anderson, the promotion from brigadier general to major general validates the work of everyone who came before her. Anderson on Thursday became the first African-American woman given a second star as a general in the U.S. Army during a ceremony at Fort Knox. It’s a day, Anderson said, that black […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will send 1,200 National Guard troops to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border, an administration official and an Arizona congresswoman said Tuesday, pre-empting Republican plans to try to force votes on such a deployment.
