The idea that mess attendants were in noncombat roles crumbled during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Enemy torpedoes made no distinction between White sailors and Black messmen. Doris Miller ...

in the same way that White Americans mourned those who were lost at Pearl Harbor,” he said. “But I think it also is a window … into the segregation and discrimination that those Black ...

a framed news clipping and a black-and-white of the USS Curtiss. He first saw the ship in October 1941 resting at anchor in Pearl Harbor, and what a beaut — long and towering, capable of 20 ...

Eighty-three years after the Pearl Harbor attack, a Black sailor is buried with military honors this week. For his family, it's long awaited closure. The remains of one of the last victims of the ...

a Black 19-year-old sailor from Virginia who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Following the attack, the U.S. Navy recovered the bodies and remains of the crew, who were later ...

A Black sailor who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor was finally laid to rest in his home state of North Carolina, nearly 84 years after his death. Born in Vass, North Carolina, Navy Mess ...

After more than 80 years, a Black soldier killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor was finally laid to rest last week in his native North Carolina. On Thursday, April 3, Navy Mess Attendant 3rd ...

Democrats and Republicans came together on Saturday to honor surviving veterans and those who lost their lives in the attack on Pearl Harbor more ... to VE Day” at the White House — a program ...

The remains of one of the last victims of the Pearl Harbor attack have been returned home. A 20-year-old Black sailor was buried with military honors this week. WUNC's Jay Price has the story of ...