Fly Boys: Western Pennsylvania's Tuskegee Airman is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...
In 1942, a group of college graduates are selected for training as pilots in the Army Air Corps at the Tuskegee training base. In what is billed by everyone as an experiment, the men face not only ...
Here's another fascinating artifact of that period: Wings for This Man, a film produced near the end of the war, narrated by Reagan, touting the heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen — the all-black ...
From Black men who left successful sports careers to join the squadron in the 1940s to current sports personalities inspired by their story, the Tuskegee Airmen’s impact is still felt.
"The last hurrah" for the Tuskegee airmen, as retired Lt. Col. James H. Harvey puts it, was the 1949 gunnery meet at what was then called Las Vegas Air Force Base. One month later, in June 1949 ...
Philadelphia forward Tobias Harris reflects on the impact his grandfather had on his life and black men in the military as a member of The Tuskegee Airmen.
On behalf of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF), the exhibit RISE ABOVE showed a 30-minute film chronicling the U.S. military’s first African-American pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen. The exhibit was ...
The last surviving Tuskegee Airman died last year, but the legacy of the storied squadron lives on. Modern-day historians ...
NFL Network's Jason McCourty introduces powerful story of the Tuskegee Airmen ahead of "NFL 360" Black History Month special. "Good Morning Football" goes around the room sharing who they think in ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The last Tuskegee Airmen from Memphis died on Thursday at the age of 99, according to Taste of Aviation. Jerry T. Hodges Jr. served as one of the Original Tuskegee Airmen ...