In this lesson, students watch a clip from the episode Our Colored Heroes in which they learn about Needham Roberts and Henry Johnson, two African-American World War I heroes. They analyze period ...

Joe Louis was the first African-American to achieve hero worship that was previously reserved for whites only. When he started boxing in the 1930s, there were no African-Americans in positions of ...

In 1913, he became the first African American to be inducted into the American ... When he returned to the United States, Smith received a hero's welcome from New York's black community.

South Carolina is erecting its first-ever statue of an African American in honor of a Civil War hero who escaped slavery and became a prominent political figure after pretending to be a ...

Until Dorie Miller is awarded the Medal of Honor, a shadow will linger over our history, one that reflects the deep racial inequalities of the past.

Joe Louis was the first African-American to achieve the kind of hero worship that was previously reserved for whites only. When he started boxing in the thirties, there were no African-Americans ...

The Navy plans on naming its fourth Ford-class aircraft carrier after World War II hero Doris 'Dorie' Miller, an African-American sailor recognized for his heroism during the 1941 attack on Pearl ...

African American Obadele Kambon relocated to Ghana in 2008 - and has never looked back. Dr Kambon has now built a successful life in the place that was once at the heart of the slave trade ...