Fort Johnson, previously renamed from Fort Polk, will revert to its original name. President Trump announced the reversal during a speech commemorating the U.S. Army's 250th birthday. Fort Polk was ...

In 2023, when the U.S. Department of Defense changed of the name of Fort Polk to remove the stain of honoring a Confederate, slaveholding Episcopal bishop, many in Louisiana railed against the move.

Two years ago, Fort Polk became Fort Johnson, shedding its Confederate namesake and honoring a Black World War I hero. On Friday, Louisiana's largest military installation became Fort Polk once again.

The fort will no longer be named after Sgt. William Henry Johnson. Instead, a building will bear his name. Weeks after Fort Johnson became Fort Polk once again, a major building at the fort in Vernon ...

Albany, NY (WRGB) — U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer has strongly criticized President Trump's decision to rename Fort Johnson back to Fort Polk, calling it "a vile insult" to the legacy of Sgt. William ...

VERNON PARISH, La. (KALB) - Fort Johnson in Vernon Parish has restored its name to Fort Polk, following comments delivered by President Donald Trump at Fort Bragg in North Carolina on June 10. RELATED ...

Last week, the U.S. Army did a good thing. But it just made a bad thing look even worse. In a low-wattage ceremony followed by a Facebook post, the brass at Fort Polk in west central Louisiana renamed ...

FORT POLK, La. (KPLC) - This morning at Fort Polk, soldiers, first responders, and the community marked the anniversary of the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Today’s remembrance connected the ...

FORT POLK, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Corvias, a trusted infrastructure and resiliency partner to the military and higher education, in collaboration with CRC Innovations and Onyx Renewables, announced the ...