"That's true. That was my mom," said Ruffin ... didn't even know that their grandparents or moms had served in Six Triple Eight," Perry told Gayle King on CBS Mornings. The unit was disbanded ...

Twenty-eight-year-old Chattanoogan Shanice Shantay Williams – who is also known professionally as Shanice Shantay – is ...

And so to have that be the case and it be true and not be fantasy and not be fictional, it’s such a big reward.” Ebony Obsidian in “The Six Triple Eight.” The other reward for being part ...

Tyler Perry’s “The Six Triple Eight” effectively and beautifully tells the incredible true story of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only all-Black and all-female battalion in World ...

The 56th NAACP Image Awards were held on Saturday, Feb. 22, honoring the achievements of some of the greatest Black ...

CHATTANOOGA, TN (WDEF) — In the movie, The Six Triple 8, Tyler Perry shares the story of an all-black, all-female Battalion in World War II. They took on an almost impossible backlog of mail ...

“The Six Triple Eight” scored the outstanding motion picture prize at the 56th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday night. The Netflix war drama film — based on the true story of an all ...