The Western Front of World War 1. Privates Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts stood guard in the Argonne Forest in the stillness of a moonlit night. Members of the Harlem Hellfighters regiment of ...

Sergeant Henry Johnson, a native of Albany, enlisted in 1917 with the all-Black 15th New York National Guard regiment, which was also know as the Harlem Hellfighters. During his military career ...

Thanks to a black American regiment of musicians called the Harlem Hellfighters, the French discovered the joys of syncopation. More than a century on, US musician Jason Moran is raising fresh ...