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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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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