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The U.S. Navy replenishment oiler previously named for gay rights leader and Navy veteran Harvey Milk has a new moniker: the USNS Oscar V. Peterson.
They said ships shouldn't be named for civil rights leaders, but only the one named for the LGBTQ+ leader appears to be ...
Edda L. Fields-Black is the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, and the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the ...
President Joe Biden pledged to use his clemency powers to right "an historic wrong." Why did it fall so short of its promise?
The USNS Harvey Milk was named in 2016 by then-Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who said at the time that the John Lewis-class of oilers would be named after leaders who fought for civil and human rights.
Trump’s sweeping economic bill includes tax cuts and Medicaid changes, but GOP divisions and a tight vote count threaten its ...