The Six Triple Eight, a military battalion made up of 855 Black women during World War II, included 19 from Maryland.

'The Six Triple Eight': Triad woman Elizabeth Bernice Barker Johnson honored in Netflix film: Part 2 The "Zero Day" star and ...

Beyoncé and her daughter Blue Ivy Carter are adding a few more NAACP Image Awards to the family trophy case. During night two ...

It wasn’t until Tyler Perry released his movie, "The Six Triple Eight," in December 2024 on Netflix, that we realized that this was what our mother did and that this was also our history.

I am proud of her for wanting to do that. Back then being an African American and a woman in the military, they looked down on them... But she, along with the other ladies in her battalion, proved ...

The battalion, nicknamed "The Six Triple Eight," had a critical mission — to redistribute and sort around 17 million pieces of mail for the European Theater of Operations. Through historical ...

The city of Hickory is celebrating Black history by highlighting the work of one of the first and only all-Black unit in the ...

A group of Lee county neighbors are celebrating after their petition to keep big businesses out of their neighborhood seems to have worked. Award-winning documentary filmmaker, historian, and ...

“At first I had a lot of shame,” Ebony Obsidian says of learning about her new movie “ The Six Triple Eight .” “ Kerry ...