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NBC10’s Black Employee Network is hosting a panel on how discrimination at the VA impacted generations of Black veterans.

Barrington Sinclair DeShong, one of the trailblazing Montford Point Marines of World War II, died of Parkinson’s disease on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. He was 99.

There's been a shakeup at veterans nonprofit that honors Montford Point Marines - top officials were caught faking their military records and awards.

There's been a shakeup at veterans nonprofit that honors Montford Point Marines - top officials were caught faking their military records and awards.

There's been a shakeup at veterans nonprofit that honors Montford Point Marines - top officials were caught faking their military records and awards.

80 years after the Montford Point Camp was established to train enlisted African Americans, relatives and other Marines fight to document their contributions before it’s too late.

Alfonzia and Timerlate Kirven were Montford Point Marines, the first African Americans allowed in that branch of the U.S. military, starting in 1942.

Montford Point Marine, Veteran of Two Wars, Dies at 91 Screen shot of a video interview with Robert L. Moore on the day the Montford Point Marines received the Congressional Gold Medal at Camp Pendleton, Calif., August 14, 2012. (U.S. Marine Corps video/Sgt. Eugenio Montanez) 16 Mar 2021 The San Diego Union-Tribune | By Pam Kragen In 1946, Robert L. Moore was stunned to see two Black Marines in uniform walking down the stree...

Oceanside —  In 1946, Robert L. Moore was stunned to see two Black Marines in uniform walking down the street near his home in North Carolina. Those men were Montford Point Marines, who were the first Black men to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps. Beginning in August 1942, about 20,000 Black men — including Moore, who rushed to enlist after seeing the men — trained at the segregated Camp Montford Point in Jacksonville, N.C. The camp was decommissioned in 1949 when President Harry Truman ...