Story by Terrance Bell | U.S. Army Fort Lee | 02.25.2020
FORT LEE, Va. (Feb. 25, 2020) -- Civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers was well-known for his high energy, sobriety and tenacity. He would not spare a minute in pursuing equality – not when black people in segregationist Mississippi were being murdered, beaten and degraded as human beings....
Story by Master Sgt. Michel Sauret | U.S. Army Reserve Command | 01.29.2020
Phillip Brashear is the command chief warrant officer for the 80th Training Command, and the son of Carl Brashear, the first African-American master diver in U.S. Navy’s history who lost his leg during a tragic accident on a mission off the coast of Spain in 1966....
Story by Maj. William Carraway | Georgia National Guard | 10.18.2019
On October 18, 2019, Jimmy Polk was pinned with the rank of chief warrant officer 5 during a ceremony at Fort Lee, Va. The ceremony marked a milestone in Polk’s 35 year military career and also for the Georgia Army National Guard as Polk became the first African American Soldier of the Ga. ARNG to reach the rank of chief warrant officer 5....
Story by Terrance Bell | U.S. Army Fort Lee | 02.27.2019
FORT LEE, Va. (Feb. 27, 2019) -- African American emigration to Africa might be considered extreme by some, but it is probably not the most daring and not an isolated case for blacks leaving this country in search of liberty....
Story by Terrance Bell | U.S. Army Fort Lee | 02.26.2019
FORT LEE, Va. (Feb. 26, 2019) -- The first African-American president and a former Fort Lee Soldier were born more than 150 years apart in different countries, yet their lives are eternally bound by complex narratives surrounding issues of slavery, oppression, power and freedom....
Story by Staff Sgt. Ian Kummer | First Army | 02.21.2017
ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. – The son of the U.S. Navy’s first African-American master diver gave the keynote presentation at a National African-American History Month Observance here Feb. 14....
Story by Patricia Muntean | U.S. Army Fort Lee | 01.22.2015
A few hundred members of the Fort Lee military community gathered at the Lee Theater Jan. 15 to celebrate the life and accomplishments of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
Story by Sgt. Ida Irby | 24th Theater Public Affairs Support Element | 01.22.2012
The West is known for the colorful horseback adventures it offers local civilizations. Although the horseback adventures of the open range Buffalo Soldiers are now a thing of the past, U.S. soldiers still enjoy the nostalgia of the old west....
