Last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired the nation’s most senior military officer, Air Force Gen. C.Q. Brown, a Black officer whom Hegseth had criticized in a book for supporting ...

The officer, dressed in jeans, a beanie hat and a Boston Police vest, then gets out of the car and continues to question the man. "It's noontime on a Thursday," the officer said.

More than 1,000 Black soldiers trained to become officers at Fort Des Moines during WWI. This year, the Iowa Historical Society will honor their service with a commemorative marker.