The Six Triple Eight, a military battalion made up of 855 Black women during World War II, included 19 from Maryland.

We had to walk naked in front of the men and everyone else, bent over, through freezing cold water,” one victim said.

Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers to become the only woman to compete for ...

"No mail, no morale." This saying inspired an all-female U.S. Women's Army Corps unit to sort vital wartime mail. KATC spoke ...

Love and grief are often inextricably tied together, but for Kaitlin Oster, they’re also powerful tools that have helped her ...

Gil Won-ok, survivor of Japan’s wartime military sexual slavery, dies at 96 - Gil was a vocal critic of Japan’s refusal to ...

She campaigned for a formal apology and reparations from Japan for what it did to thousands of women like her, mostly Korean, ...

It is not anywhere like these historically inaccurate films, for the film did prioritize historical accuracy. The film does ...

Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw’s ...

A funeral procession carries a portrait of Gil Won-ok, a late victim of Japan's wartime sexual slavery, euphemistically ...