BALTIMORE – Leading as much as Veterans Day, Afro News hosted a “Salute to our Veterans” which acknowledges Black veterans throughout generations, from World War II by way of as we speak.
The celebration of Black veterans was held Tuesday on the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore.
“It’s now not simply concerning the day, it is turn out to be concerning the week and concerning the month,” mentioned Anthony C. Woods, Maryland Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Afro News was based in 1892 by John H. Murphy Sr., a previously enslaved Civil War sergeant.
At the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, his granddaughter, Frances Murphy Draper, now CEO and writer of Afro News, hosted the inaugural “Salute to our Veterans.”
“We’ve acquired quite a lot of veterans right here as we speak and we wish to cease and say thanks in your service,” mentioned Draper. “We have been honoring veterans almost all the lifetime of our 131-year existence.”
For greater than a century, Afro News has highlighted untold tales, hardships, and triumphs of the African-American neighborhood.
It’s a pioneer in documenting firsthand warfare accounts relationship again to World War II.
“Black veterans have performed such an essential half, in each peace and warfare occasions, and for among the earlier conflicts like World War II, they had been proper on the entrance strains with everyone else preventing for this nation.”
The “Salute to our Veterans” honored courageous women and men who served our nation, together with Maj. Gen. Janeen Birckhead, retired Maj. Edgar Brookings and retired Col. Edna Cummings.
“I did not get right here alone,” Cummings mentioned. “Thousands of veterans and organizations stepped up and supported.”
Supporters like Woods emphasize the sacrifices and contributions of our nation’s Black heroes.
“When you then go ahead to then put your life on the road for a rustic that traditionally could not have all the time appreciated you, that could be a testomony to Black Americans love for this nation and it is a privilege to be part of that custom myself,” Woods mentioned.
In celebration of Veterans Day, Afro News has reprinted its 1945 e-book titled, “This is our War,” a compilation of wartime experiences.
