Congressman Kweisi Mfume announces bills to award Medal of Honor and Congressional Gold Medal to African American hero, Mess ...

Last week, during National Medal of Honor Day on March 25, U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Maryland, introduced a pair of bills to ...

Eighty-three years after the Pearl Harbor attack, a Black sailor is buried with military honors this week. For his family, it's long awaited closure.

In addition, they look at the many myths that have accrued around Miller’s actions that day, including a look at his portrayal in the wildly inaccurate 2001 motion picture Pearl Harbor. Doris Miller, ...

He had joined up at 19, signing on as a mess attendant in a segregated branch of the Navy, serving aboard the USS West Virginia, which carried him all the way to Pearl Harbor ... another mess officer ...

Most of the main characters in this Michael Bay war drama are fictional, but Doris Miller was a real person – and a real hero. When the attack on Pearl Harbor began, the mess attendant first helped ...

Doris Miller, the first Black sailor to earn a Navy Cross, is one of many from marginalized backgrounds whose contributions have been scrubbed from Pentagon websites.