The recent film "The Six Triple Eight" follows a group of African American women in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, a unit charged with routing mail to soldiers overseas during World ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTVM) - A new movie on Netflix is shedding light on the only women’s Army Corps unit of color stationed in Europe during World War II - and there’s a local tie to Savannah.

Five times, Karen Taylor has watched the film, “The Six Triple Eight,” since its release in December. And she’ll see it again ...

The Netflix movie, directed by Tyler Perry, chronicles the formidable task during World War II faced by Taylor’s mother and others in a segregated Women’s Army Corps unit to help America’s ...

The Tuskegee Airmen were founded in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama when the U.S. Army Air Corps began a program to train Black servicemembers as Air Corps Cadets.

Mary Kearney was a leader of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, a unit depicted in the Tyler Perry movie “The Six Triple Eight” released on Netflix.

The debate over women in combat roles, resolved nearly a decade ago through real-world success, has resurfaced. Revisiting it ...

By comparison, the Army began integrating women at the platoon level in the 1990s. Female recruits did not start training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego until 2021, roughly 100 years ...

Donald Trump’s efforts to undo diversity, equity and inclusion efforts throughout the federal government have had a ...

The Air Force pulled the course for review last week following the Trump administration's sweeping order barring diversity ...

In a post on X Sunday, Alabama Senator Katie Boyd Britt called the decision to pause teaching the videos “malicious ...