The men had objected to working until safety concerns were addressed following an explosion at a port near San Francisco that claimed hundreds of lives. By John Ismay Reporting from Washington On July ...

Carol Cherry never knew her father was a central character in one of the darkest chapters of American military history until long after his death — something she found out from her sister. "I said, ...

Civil rights leaders and families of World War II veterans celebrated the long-awaited exonerations of 256 Black sailors who were wrongfully convicted after the 1944 Port Chicago explosion, a disaster ...

A team of divers, led by Dominic Robinson, explored the WW1-era HMS M1 submarine 100 years after it sank, 20 miles off Plymouth, Devon. The sub, armed with a 12-metre gun and sunk in 1925 after ...

Before Harry Belafonte was a superstar, known as the "King of Calypso" for his smash hits in the 1950s and for funneling his wealth into support for the civil rights movement, he was a World War II ...

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