Military weighs in: Recruits turned away due to obesity

VIDEO - 27 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds are ineligible to join the military because they're overweight...

Nicki Minaj, Keri Hilson to headline 'VH1's Divas'

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) - Katy Perry, Sugarland, Keri Hilson, Nicki Minaj and Paramore are this year's "VH1 Divas," but they'll be singing for the military through a partnership with the USO...

Air Force mom continues to serve outside the military

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VIDEO - A military mother of two has created an online community which offers support to others in her position ranging from finances, to simply how to make it through a long deployment...

Tuskegee Airman buried at Arlington Cemetery

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WASHINGTON - Col. Spann Watson, one of the famed black flyers who fought in WWII, joins the ranks of the country's fallen at Arlington National Cemetery...

'Don't Ask' homophobic questions, 'Don't Tell' us poll matters

Kevin J. Williams

OPINION - Military commanders taking temperature readings on social issues is potentially dangerous...

Steele on GOP calls for resignation: 'I ain't going anywhere'

Lana Schupbach

theGRIO REPORT - Michael Steele went on to add that the party doesn't need the 'distraction', and that he's focused on 'winning' and a 'winning message'...

Steele trapped behind bad timing, big mouth

Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III

OPINION - As accurate as some of his observations are they ring hollow when stated by Michael Steele and put in the context of 'this is a war of Obama's choosing'...

Why blacks should embrace the red, white and blue

Javier E. David

OPINION - A new effort is underway to draw attention to previously obscure but nonetheless pivotal black figures that have advanced the great American narrative...