A Black Civil War soldier's unmarked grave Up North finally gets a headstone For years, the residents of a tiny U.P. town laid flowers and flags on an unmarked grave in their cemetery.

Phil Kolehmainen, of Houghton, stands next to a headstone for Civil War veteran Sgt. Hiram White, of Company, on Sunday, April 23, 2023, in the cemetery in Kenton, a small town in the western U.P.

FALL RIVER — It’s been long overdue — 95 years in fact — but Saturday saw the unveiling of a headstone and memorial for 19th century Black inventor Lewis Howard Latimer at Oak Grove Cemetery.

The Department of Veterans Affairs unveiled the new headstones at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery for the all-Black Buffalo soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment who were ...

The 3rd Battalion 24th Infantry Regiment was a unit of Buffalo Soldiers, Black enlisted men commanded by white officers. In 1917, they arrived in Houston to guard the construction of a new ...

The race riot occurred Aug. 23, 1917, as tensions between the Black enlisted soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, a Buffalo Soldier unit, and white Houston police officers and ...

After more than a century of neglect, the new headstone of Stephen Smith — once believed to be the richest Black man in 19th-century America — was finally unveiled.

Ryan Spezzano from Lough Memorials levels a headstone being installed in St. John’s Cemetery for Samuel A. Neale, a Black War of 1812 veteran who has been denied the traditional military honor ...

In dedicating new headstones for 17 Black World War I soldiers executed after Houston riots in 1917, the Department of Veterans Affairs said Thursday it was righting a wrong of the past.

PORTSMOUTH — The community gathered with Laurel Yancey, a descendant of Dinah Chase Whipple to unveil a headstone June 13, marking the grave of the woman who founded the first school for Black ...