100 years after WWI, all-Black unit Harlem Hellfighters awarded Congressional Gold Medal

Sep 1, 2021 |

New York’s famous 369th (Old 15th) Infantry Regiment arrives home from France. From the National Archives via Wikimedia Commons One of the most decorated all-Black American regiments is finally getting nationally recognized more than a century after World War I. President Joe Biden last week signed into law the Harlem Hellfighters Congressional Gold Medal Act, which […more]

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