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An independent commission is recommending new names for nine Army posts that now commemorate Confederate officers. Among the recommendations: Fort Bragg in...

Fort Bragg would become Fort Liberty. Fort Gordon would be Fort Eisenhower. And, for the first time, Army bases would be named after Black soldiers and women. An independent commission...

An independent commission on Tuesday recommended new names for nine bases, including one in Louisiana that would be renamed for Army Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a Black Medal of Honor

The recommendations are the latest step in a broader effort by the military to confront racial injustice.

Army leaders fighting over glory, not racism, drove the choice of “Liberty,” source says.

What was initially more than 34,000 submissions for the panel to consider got whittled down to 3,670 to a final list of 87 potential names for the nine installations.

WASHINGTON -- An independent commission on Tuesday recommended new names for nine Army posts that now commemorate Confederate officers in the latest step in a broader effort by the military to confront racial injustice.

The Defense Department has received recommendations for the new names of several of the U.S. Army’s most storied military posts...

An independent commission is recommending new names for nine Army posts that now commemorate Confederate officers. Among the recommendations: Fort Bragg in North Carolina would become Fort Liberty.

North Carolina's storied Fort Bragg Army base should be renamed "Fort Liberty," a congressional commission recommended Tuesday in a major step forward for the Pentagon's controversial two-year push to purge from the U.S. military any links to the Confederacy and its most high-profile generals.