As sea stories go, few are more gripping than the sinking of the heavy cruiser Indianapolis and the loss of about 880 men in the closing days of World War II. This yarn has it all: a U.S. warship ...

The men had objected to working until safety concerns were addressed following an explosion at a port near San Francisco that claimed hundreds of lives. By John Ismay Reporting from Washington On July ...

Carol Cherry never knew her father was a central character in one of the darkest chapters of American military history until long after his death — something she found out from her sister. "I said, ...

Civil rights leaders and families of World War II veterans celebrated the long-awaited exonerations of 256 Black sailors who were wrongfully convicted after the 1944 Port Chicago explosion, a disaster ...

Before Harry Belafonte was a superstar, known as the "King of Calypso" for his smash hits in the 1950s and for funneling his wealth into support for the civil rights movement, he was a World War II ...

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