In honor of the 80th anniversary Wednesday, a four-day “Port Chicago Weekend” will meld education and entertainment July 18-21 to honor the catastrophe — the deadliest military disaster on ...

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: 80, years ago, 320 people were killed in a massive explosion at a navy munitions depot in Port Chicago, California. About two-thirds of the people killed were black sailors who ...

On the 80 th anniversary of the Port Chicago disaster, the U.S. Navy on Wednesday exonerated the 50 African American sailors convicted of mutiny after they refused to load explosives onto ships ...

U.S. forces were in desperate need of ammunition, and Port Chicago in northern California ... but they were never addressed. Then, disaster struck. Two explosions in July 1944 decimated the ...

Members of the community gathered on Saturday to remember the lives lost during the 1944 deadly Port Chicago explosion. The eightieth anniversary was extra special for some as it marks the first ...

This declaration marks the end of a dark chapter in U.S. Navy history, coinciding notably with the 80th anniversary of the explosive disaster. The Port Chicago Naval Magazine explosion in ...

Eighty years after explosions ripped through the Port Chicago naval facility in California, killing 320 sailors, Coast Guard personnel and civilians, the secretary of the Navy announced Wednesday ...

a series of explosions in the ammunition depot at Port Chicago, near San Francisco, killed 320 U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and other personnel while flattening much of the town. Most of the victims ...

The courts-martial also occurred before the Navy’s Court of Inquiry finalized its report on the Port Chicago explosion, which would have informed the defense and contained 19 substantive ...

"And I want my children to be proud of what he's done." July 17 will mark 80 years since the Port Chicago disaster, and Carol Cherry plans to visit the site for the first time. "I am really ...

CONCORD, Calif. (Tribune News Service) — During World War II, the Port Chicago Naval Magazine was a bustling hub where hundreds of African American sailors — segregated from their white ...