Phil Kolehmainen, of Houghton, stands next to a headstone for Civil War veteran Sgt. Hiram White, of Company, on Sunday, April 23, 2023, in the cemetery in Kenton, a small town in the western U.P.

FALL RIVER — It’s been long overdue — 95 years in fact — but Saturday saw the unveiling of a headstone and memorial for 19th century Black inventor Lewis Howard Latimer at Oak Grove ...

A Black Civil War soldier's unmarked grave Up North finally gets a headstone For years, the residents of a tiny U.P. town laid flowers and flags on an unmarked grave in their cemetery.

Memorial day in Memphis: Memphis veteran showed the way for next generation of Black soldiers The history of Captain Nathaniel Reed. In 1853 Reed moved to Iowa and, once the war broke out ...

The 3rd Battalion 24th Infantry Regiment was a unit of Buffalo Soldiers, Black enlisted men commanded by white officers. In 1917, they arrived in Houston to guard the construction of a new ...

A headstone for Phil Reid was unveiled Tuesday, July 27, 2021, honoring the founder of the St. Paul Gophers, a barnstorming Black baseball team that dominated the sport in Minnesota and beyond ...

A headstone for Dinah Chase Whipple, a formerly enslaved Black woman who died in 1846 after founding the first school in New Hampshire for African children, was unveiled on June 13 in Portsmouth's ...