Mary Kearney was a leader of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, a unit depicted in the Tyler Perry movie “The Six Triple Eight” released on Netflix.

The trailblazing soldiers depicted in the Netflix film are featured in a free virtual screening of an informative documentary on February 5, 2025. Here's how to reserve a seat.

"It's very jarring and very few and far between that a script comes through and shocks you in this way," Ebony Obsidian says.

The first two times she saw it surrounded with other people, other people who were descendants of the women in the 6888, some military people ... "We'll probably form something as a non-profit ...

Netflix gave us a feel-good movie filled with powerful female leads and a lot of historical appeal for people interested in ...

Born in Okinawa, Japan, into a long line of military servicemen and women ... tradition and joined the U.S. Navy, serving for eight years. In 2017, he started uploading his music to YouTube in the ...

Abbie Noel Campbell in Netflix’s historical drama The Six Triple Eight. Written and directed ... Central Postal Directory Battalion, the first military division comprised of Black women and ...

Tyler Perry’s new Netflix film, The Six Triple Eight, tells the story of the 6888th ... they were deemed less threatening to the military hierarchy than the WACs, who interposed women into ...

Despite an opening combat scene akin to virtually every other World War II film, Tyler Perry’s The Six Triple Eight focuses on ... a Black woman in the US military. Ebony Obsidian stars as ...

Raleigh native and military veteran Millie Dunn Veasey hosted ... all-women battalion is featured in the Netflix movie “The Six Triple Eight,” written by Tyler Perry and starring Kerry Washington.