Black History Month

Celebrate Black History Month with VA and learn more about the history of Black Veterans and the Black innovators who made significant changes.

Celebrating Black Veteran artists from the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival.

VA’s largest research program is making discoveries to help improve health care for Black Veterans.

This year’s Black History Month theme is African Americans and the Arts. The BHM founder believed reason would prevail over prejudice.

Dr. Sara (Sadie) Marie Johnson Peterson Delaney was the Chief Librarian of the VA hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama, for 34 years.

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.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Carl Clark, who saved the U.S.S. Aaron Ward from destruction after it was attacked by a Japanese kamikaze.

Retired Coast Guardsman Melvin W. Williams Jr. enlisted when “The Coast Guard was going through a transitional period of integration.”

103-year-old Army Veteran and former caregiver Ellis Allen was drafted into the Army on July 25, 1942. His Army service included 33 months as a POW.

VA celebrates Black History Month with a concluding salute to Dr. Audrey Frison, who is retiring after 40 years of serving Veterans.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Benjamin O. Davis Sr., who was the first African American to be promoted a brigadier general in the American military.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Merryl Tengesdal, whose accomplishments include becoming the first and only black female U-2 Dragon Lady pilot.