Gen. Michael E. Langley is the first Black person to attain the highest rank in the corps, whose most senior leadership had until now consisted entirely of white men. By Helene Cooper WASHINGTON ...

Avery White, a 2023 graduate of Newton High School, has earned the title of United States Marine after completing 13 weeks of ...

Marine Capt. Zach Mullins after a training flight out of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. Mullins, who flies the F/A-18 Hornet, is one of five Black Marines who pilot fighter jets.

U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael E. Langley, the first Black four-star general in the branch's 246-year history, was sworn in Saturday morning during a promotion ceremony in Washington, D.C ...

More than 35 years since his career in the U.S. Marine Corps began, Lt. Gen. Michael Langley will reach one of the highest ranks of the military. On Aug. 1, the U.S. Senate confirmed Langley to ...

Langley is expected to be confirmed by the full Senate, marking a major step for diversity in the Marine Corps’ 246-year history. More than 70 White men have risen to the Marines’ highest ...

Alfred Masters was sworn in to the Marine Corps in 1942 ... become the first Black Marine, to which he said yes, Masters enlisted. He served in a segregated unit in World War II in Guam and the South ...

Lt. Gen. Michael E. Langley has made history in becoming the first Black officer in the Marine Corps' 246-year history promoted to the rank of four-star general.. After the Senate voted to confirm ...

The Marine Corps "treated us like royalty," he told the college. "And to see the rank that the ladies, Black and white, had achieved, and to see Black generals, which I didn't think would ever ...

Gen. Langley has served in the Marine Corps for 37 years and will take command of the U.S. Africa Command, based in Germany. Michael E. Langley became the first Black four-star Marine General in a ...

WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps has a Black woman commanding in its ranks as a two-star general for the first time in history. President Joe Biden nominated Brig. Gen. Lorna Mahlock for the ...

Soon, more Marines — Black and white, men and women — were asking to take pictures with the new four-star general. At Saturday’s ceremony, five officers sat in a row watching the proceedings.