The century-long struggle to achieve equality for America's black soldiers and sailors, in a stirring narrative history by the author of Root and Branch

On April 12, 1945, the United States Army Air Force arrested 101 of its African American officers. They were charged with disobeying a direct order from a super

Before Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights marches, and Dr. Martin Luther King, there was the Double V campaign. In 1942, during the earliest days of the Second Wo

Recounts how African Americans fought two wars during World War II, one against enemy dictators abroad and the other against racial discrimination at home.

Our Mothers' War is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American soc