This year’s Black History Month theme is African Americans and the Arts. The BHM founder believed reason would prevail over prejudice.
VA’s largest research program is making discoveries to help improve health care for Black Veterans.
Justina Wells believes the legacy of world-class health care is engrained in the people who provide it. “We’re in the people business.” Black History Month celebrates diversity.
Retired Coast Guardsman Melvin W. Williams Jr. enlisted when “The Coast Guard was going through a transitional period of integration.”
VA celebrates Black History Month with a concluding salute to Dr. Audrey Frison, who is retiring after 40 years of serving Veterans.
Dr. Sara (Sadie) Marie Johnson Peterson Delaney was the Chief Librarian of the VA hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama, for 34 years.
Celebrating Black Veteran artists from the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival.
Black History Month: There are more than two million Black Veterans in the United States who have made great sacrifices for our country.
The Center for Minority Veterans honors the Montford Point Marines, the brave men who were the first African Americans to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps, paving the way for future generations of minorities in the military.
During Black History Month, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Veteran Charles Bolden, an aviator, an astronaut and a NASA administrator.
Telly Award winner: “Being part of a creative team to support our Veterans is the best part of this job.”
Volunteer Week: Albert El is the curator volunteer at the Philadelphia VA museum. He sometimes works in his Civil War-era military uniform.