WEST POINT, N.Y. - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. entered West Point in 1932 as its only black cadet and spent the next four years shunned. He roomed alone, and no one befriended him. The future Tuskegee ...
West Point cadets pass by historical reminders constantly — from Grant Hall and Bradley Barracks to the statues of Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower overlooking the parade fields. Now a ...
"So many of my assumptions about the world and how to better it were turned upside down." ...
The decision to name the newest barracks at West Point for Benjamin O. Davis Jr. has received scant comment in the press. That strikes me as regrettable at a time when a polarized nation is hungering ...
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Two members of Congress from New York are pressing Army officials to rename the U.S. Military Academy barracks honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ...