Thurgood Marshall Jr. is a lawyer and son of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Tracy Roosevelt is deputy chief of staff to the secretary of the Navy and great-granddaughter of Eleanor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 20—The banner headline from the July 18, 1944 edition of the Lodi News-Sentinel captures one of the deadliest home-front ...

CONCORD — One hour meant the difference between life and death for Morris Soublet Sr., a 22-year-old sailor assigned during World War II to load ammunition at Port Chicago, a remote naval base ...

Eighty years ago, 320 people died in a massive explosion at a Navy munitions depot in Port Chicago, California. About two-thirds of those killed were Black sailors who loaded bombs and ammunition onto ...

Civil rights leaders and families of World War II veterans celebrated the long-awaited exonerations of 256 Black sailors who were wrongfully convicted after the 1944 Port Chicago explosion, a disaster ...

The hidden history of Black sailors unjustly punished after the Port Chicago explosion Eighty years ago, 320 people died in a massive explosion at a Navy munitions depot in Port Chicago, California.

The Port Chicago Naval Magazine explosion in California claimed the lives of 320 individuals, injured 400 others, and caused significant infrastructure damage, including the destruction of two ships ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Navy this week posthumously exonerated 50 Black sailors who were wrongly punished in connection with the 1944 explosion ...