Captain Gail Harris says her dream of joining the Navy started when she was a little girl. "Well when I was five years old I ...

At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the exhibition Double Victory: The African American Military Experience provides visitors a valuable overview. You can read a story from ...

Military records reveal that women fought—and died—in all the ... and Sexuality Studies and African-American Studies and has received several awards for teaching and research.

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.