At a time when it was extremely difficult for Black families to purchase homes and utilize government benefits, my grandfather accomplished an almost impossible feat: He used the GI Bill after World ...

For Veterans Day, a group of Democratic lawmakers is reviving an effort to pay the families of Black service members who fought on behalf of the nation during World War II for benefits they were ...

Black veterans weren't able to make use of the housing provisions of the GI Bill because banks generally wouldn't make loans for mortgages in Black neighborhoods, and African-Americans were excluded ...

Jim Clyburn, a Democrat, is the Representative for South Carolina’s 6th Congressional District. Moulton, a Democrat, represents Massachusetts's 6th Congressional District. He sits on the House Armed ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This discrimination was by design. Southern Democrats including House Veterans ...

In 1944, the GI Bill lifted a generation into the middle class — but excluded Black vets who served their country at war and came home to segregation. A bill in Congress aims to fix that. The ...

For his summer research project, Daniel Hennelly ’26 has secured an Irma Cheatham Fellowship in Africana Studies to explore racial inequalities in how the GI Bill was implemented in the wake of World ...

During World War II 1,154,486 black Americans served in uniform. Not only did they face continued brutal racism and discrimination when they returned home from the war, but the benefits of the GI Bill ...

William Dabney never liked to talk much about his time fighting in World War II. "He didn't keep his uniform or any of those things. In other words, he was through with the service," says Beulah ...