NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — Memphis is experiencing a serious problem with homelessness and poverty among veterans but a new nonprofit is hoping to ease the burden.
CHICAGO CRUSADER — It’s the week of Independence Day and as we celebrate, let us not forget the actual meaning of what is assumed to be an...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — A recent CBS ‘60 Minutes’ segment hailed a simple procedure therapy for PTSD that’s so fast-acting, many believe it could be a game changer....
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — Los Angeles County is currently grappling with a homeless crisis and statistics indicate that veterans in the county experience homelessness at a higher...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — HSBC Bank USA, N.A., (HSBC) recently announced a $50,000 grant to the African American Veterans Monument, the nation’s first-ever memorial dedicated solely to honoring the...
HUDSON VALLEY PRESS — Jamie Hickman always knew she wanted to join the Army. A spark was ignited when she was a little girl and saw...
PASADENA JOURNAL — Sandra was an Honors Graduate from San Gorgonio High School in Highland, California; and received the Distinguished Honor Graduate Award at both Airman...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — A U.S. Navy veteran who persevered against injury and cancer and a young woman about to start her career in the U.S. Marine Corps...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — Los Angeles International Airport and Edge4Vets continued their partnership May 15 to connect military servicemen and women with airport jobs. Going beyond the...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Staff Sgt. Logan J. Melgar was found dead on June 4, 2017 in housing he shared with other special operations forces in Mali....
WASHINGTON INFORMER — History was recently made at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York when 32 Black women graduated from the illustrious school....
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Claflin University graduate, Brig. Gen. Twanda Young, is a 1988 Distinguished Military Graduate of South Carolina State University’s ROTC Program. She will keynote...
THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Macon started out smoking marijuana, eventually used cocaine and then crack cocaine. After retiring from the military, he was mostly using crack....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — A 2012 Human Rights Watch report noted that the state of California had de facto sentenced 301 people to die in its prisons...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — A 2012 Human Rights Watch report noted that the state of California had de facto sentenced 301 people to die in its prisons...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — Many young men and women enlist in the Armed Forces because they believe in the mission of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The upcoming municipal elections will not be Byron Bradford’s first go-around in the political arena. During the 2018 election cycle, Bradford challenged Republican...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — Veteran Marine Corps Corporal Claude Fields III was the call-in guest panelist on the America’s Heroes Group radio talk show on Saturday March...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Senior Political Correspondent” Hasan Minhaj and Trevor Noah of The Daily Show are co-creators. After another man-made catastrophe, Minhaj, an American Muslim and...
THE CHICAGO CRUSADER — The U.S. military is devising major reductions in its medical corps, unnerving the system’s advocates who fear the cuts will hobble the armed...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — The America’s Heroes Group radio talk show started the new year off with a compelling follow up interview to a story that was...
THE WASHINGTON INFORMER — An 83-year-old man has proven it’s never too late to pursue one’s educational goals.
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Gladys West, hired in 1956 as a mathematician at the U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory, has been presented with the Air Force Space and...
HUDSON VALLEY PRESS — The Army West Point football team has turned the tides on rival Navy by defeating the Mids for the third-straight season following...
THE TENNESSEE TRIBUNE — Veterans that have had to endure the American flag being bastardized, the national anthem being politicized, and constant disrespect has become a...
PASADENA JOURNAL — The Pasadena community is invited to join civic leaders, special guests, military veterans and active members of the U.S. armed forces for a...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — Children and families in the Gary area will have a chance to exchange Halloween candy for toys and send deployed U.S. troops, veterans...
NASHVILLE PRIDE — I’m a veteran of the U.S. Army. So it may come as a surprise that the day I read about NFL players kneeling...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Our stock market has been correcting itself for quite some time. It appears that the major correction is on...
PHILIP MARCELO, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — New Balance thinks the U.S. military is dragging its feet. Last April, the Department of Defense announced military recruits...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The New England Patriots got $675,000 from the Army National Guard for honoring American troops, including a “True Patriot” program during a...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — The Army’s 2016 class of commanders for 31 of its top combat units has one black officer, a trend that the...
(The Washington Post) – The last time Danieldevel Davis got out of prison it was 2012 and he was 38. “I ain’t going back into...
(Economist) – The path from leaving Bibles in naval hotel rooms to placing weapons of mass destruction in the hands of religious zealots might seem rather a long one. But Mikey...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The Obama administration has a flawed theory: Use diplomacy to keep the peace; it is better relations with other...
The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Childhood traumas are more common among military members and veterans than among civilians, according to a new study. Researchers say...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The Obama administration is preparing for an expansion of U.S. military involvement into areas from which it should keep...
