FORGOTTEN: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War

Part two of the city’s commemoration will feature Paris-based American journalist, photographer, and author Linda Hervieux discussing her book FORGOTTEN: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War on Friday, June 4 at 12 noon. Hervieux will discuss the story of D-Day’s only African-American combat soldiers, who were effectively written out of the history of the Normandy invasion. Tom Brokaw called FORGOTTEN "utterly compelling," and Douglas Brinkley said "all Americans should read" this battalion's journey through segregated Jim Crow America to unexpected freedom in Britain and France. Hervieux has lectured extensively on the African Americans of D-Day and World War II at Harvard, Princeton, Berkeley, the Imperial War Museum in London, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

Linda Hervieux is a journalist and photographer whose work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the New York Daily News, and the Daily Beast. A native of Lowell, Massachusetts, she lived for many years in Brooklyn before moving to Paris, France, with her husband.