As the nation commemorates the 250th anniversary of the War for Independence, the contributions of Black patriots are at risk ...

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the nation’s founding. Flora stayed in the Portsmouth area, operating ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

For enslaved Black Americans living through the Revolutionary War, freedom sometimes meant ... predecessor units in December 1782, when the Patriots’ imminent victory prompted the British ...

As the Revolutionary War spread through every region ... did side with the Patriot cause. 5,000 black men served in the Continental Army, and hundreds more served on the sea.

Patriots' Day — the day celebrated as the start of the Revolutionary War — is less than two weeks away, and while it celebrates a flashpoint in American history, it shouldn't be confused with ...

NEW KENT — Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after providing critical intelligence that helped the United States clinch victory in the Revolutionary War, an American patriot will finally have a monument ...

In the first few years after the Revolutionary War, “there was a bubble of excitement … this opportunity for things to change,” for Black people in America, Bakari said. Black Patriots were ...

As the Revolutionary War spread through every region ... did side with the Patriot cause. 5,000 black men served in the Continental Army, and hundreds more served on the sea.