Tag: Congressional Gold Medal
Celebrated Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee Dies at 102
Charles McGee, a Tuskegee Airman who flew 409 fighter combat missions over three wars and later helped to bring attention to the Black pilots...
Senate Passes Bill to Honor Emmett Till and His Mother
The Senate has passed a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in...
Last parent of a child killed in 1963 church bombing dies
By Associated Press
Maxine McNair, the last living parent of any of the four Black girls killed in a 1963 Alabama church bombing, died Sunday....
House Judiciary Committee Passes Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act
The House Judiciary Committee has passed the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act (H.R. 55), legislation introduced by U.S. Representative Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) that would...
Hero Capitol Officer Eugene Goodman Hails from Washington, DC
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman is a hero from Washington, D.C., who deserves the Congressional...
