The Six Triple Eight cleared a years-long backlog of mail in just three months. Eighty years later, the unit is finally ...

Donald Trump fired Carla Hayden, the first African American and first woman to serve as Librarian of Congress.

The Senate voted on legislation to bestow the award in 2021 ... West Midlands, England, in February 1945. Black women were virtually excluded from military service until the start of World War II, ...

The only Black, all-female unit serving in Europe during World War II received the Congressional Gold Medal on Tuesday at the United States Capitol.

And like many Black units during World War II ... co-sponsored the medal legislation in the Senate. “When these women returned home, there was no parade to greet them. No one lined the streets ...