Capehart

'We're all struggling with this': The Army's top enlisted service member opens up about race

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June 23, 2020 4:00am

30m

Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael A. Grinston, the highest ranking enlisted member of the U.S. Army, discusses his upbringing in Alabama and why he sometimes felt, being biracial, he was "not black enough for black people."

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