Army Special Forces Col. Paris Davis will receive the Medal of Honor next month thanks in part to the hard work of his fellow veterans.

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Pioneering African American Reporters Alice Dunnigan and Ethel Payne to be First Recipients of the New “Dunnigan-Payne Prize” WASHINGTON, April 25 – The White House Correspondents’ Association is pleased to announce the creation of its first-ever lifetime career achievement award, named after the first two African American women to serve as members of the White House press corps. From here on, the Dunnigan-Payne Prize for Lifetime Career Achievement will be awarded on an occasional basis at the discretion of the WHCA board to recognize meritorious service throughout an individual’s career as a White House correspondent. The namesakes of the award, … Continued

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When pioneering journalist Ethel Payne attended newly integrated Lindblom High in the late 1920s, she wasn’t allowed to work for the student newspaper. She went on to break racial barriers to cover seven U.S. presidents from the White House.

“It just wasn’t the code at the time,” the trailblazer nicknamed “first lady of the black press” says in a biography released last month by HarperCollins. Payne is credited with melding activism and journalism to help propel the civil rights movement as a White House correspondent in the 1950s and 60s.

The West Englewood native found support with an English teacher at Lindblom, according to “Eye On The Struggle: Ethel Payne, The First Lady of the Black Press,” by author James McGrath Morris.

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Paris Davis, a Green Beret Captain in Vietnam, killed or shot at least 20 enemy soldiers, rescued four other Americans while under fire, and led the defense of a camp against a force of at least 250 in June 1965. President Joe Biden approved a long-delayed Medal of Honor for Davis this week.

"Medal of Honor paperwork for Col. Paris Davis (ret.) mysteriously vanished in 1965, at the height of the civil rights movement."

After a delay of nearly six decades, one of the first Black officers in the Green Berets will receive the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest combat decoration for his heroism in Vietnam.

On Monday, President Joe Biden personally called Col. Paris Davis (ret.) to deliver the news, informing him that he will receive the Medal of Honor "for his remarkable heroism during the Vietnam War," according to a White House statement.

"The call today from President Biden prompted a wave of memories of the men and women I served with in Vietnam – from the members of 5th Special Forces Group and other U.S. military units to the doctors and nurses who cared for our wounded," Davis said in a statement released by him and his family. "I am so very grateful for my family and friends within the military and elsewhere who kept alive the story of A-team, A-321 at Camp Bong Son. I think often of those fateful 19 hours on June 18, 1965 and what our team did to make sure we left no man behind on that battlefield."

Mr. Biden told Davis that "he looks forward to hosting him at the White House soon for a medal presentation," the White House said. 

Davis' story, about how his Medal of Honor paperwork mysteriously vanished in 1965, at the height of the civil rights movement, first aired on "CBS Mornings" two years ago.

Julieanna Richardson’s organization is documenting the breadth of the Black experience in America, one story at a time.

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The White House Correspondents' Association is honoring Ethel Payne and Alice Dunnigan, the first Black women to be members of the White House press corps.

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