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Premieres Monday, June 12, 2023 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! In World War II over a million African Americans fought for freedom and democracy in an army, that was strictly segregated by race. These Black GIs fought to liberate Germany from Nazi rule, as racism reached unfathomable levels at home and their unit. Finding a "breath of freedom" in post-war Germany, Black soldiers experienced for the first time what it felt like to be treated as equals.

<p>Nazi policy toward the nation&#39;s Black residents was strongly influenced by American Jim Crow laws and illustrates the dangers of militantly racial ideas of nationhood.&nbsp;</p>

Natalye Pass Harpin is a professor at Grossmont College and lecturer at UC San Diego, and will present "Afro-Descendants in Nazi Germany," exploring the racial policies of the Nazis toward Black Germans during the 1930s and '40s, on Feb. 28 at Central Library in downtown San Diego

Scholars, poets, writers, composers... a new book focuses on the wide influence of Africa abroad, writes Angela Cobbinah

On Holocaust Memorial Day let's remember that at least 10,000 people of African descent were murdered by the Nazis