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Eight years after he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Geoffrey...

The nation’s military academies provide a key pipeline into the leadership of the armed services and, for the better part of the last decade, they have welcomed more racially diverse students each year

Eight years after he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Geoffrey...

The nation’s military academies provide a key pipeline into the leadership of the armed services and, in recent years, they have welcomed more racially diverse students. But beyond blanket anti-discrimination policies, these federally funded institutions volunteer little about how they screen for extremist or hateful behavior, or address the racial slights that some graduates of color say they face.

Eight years after he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Geoffrey...

Eight years after he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Geoffrey...

Eight years after he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Geoffrey...

Eight years after he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Geoffrey Easterling remains astonished by the Confederate history still memorialized on the storied academy’s campus – the six-foot-tall painting of Confederate Gen.

Eight years after he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Geoffrey Easterling remains astonished by the Confederate history still memorialized on the storied academy’s campus – the

Some graduates of color who endured hostile environments are left questioning the military maxim that all service members wearing the same uniform are equal.