Mildred Carter of Tuskegee was Alabama’s first licensed black female pilot. She earned her pilot’s license on February 1, 1941. With 150 hours of flight time logged, Carter flew the skies in a two-plane formation with her husband and fellow Tuskegee Airman, Herbert Carter. In a campus publication, Mildred Carter had been given the title […]
The Tuskegee Airmen were formed in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama. They would serve as the first black members of America’s Air Force. Among those enlisted one year later were Retired Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard R. Hall, Jr. and Retired Lieutenant Colonel Bob Hughes – a white man. The definition of a Tuskegee Airman […]
Jesse Rutledge, an 88-year-old Tuskegee airman who served in World War II as a gunner on a B-25, was carjacked in Detroit in broad daylight on Saturday, Channel 7 Action News reports. “He said,” ‘N*gga give me your keys’ and racked his gun back,” Rutledge said one of the carjackers told him. He was leaving a barbershop when […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — They sat in wheelchairs as honored guests at President Barack Obama‘s second inaugural, attended to almost minute-by-minute by active duty members of the military. For these Tuskegee Airmen, members of the famed all-black unit of World War II and several years beyond, the tables surely turned. From the terrace of the Capitol, […]
Retired Lt. Colonel Herbert Carter, one of the 33 original Tuskegee Airmen, died yesterday afternoon at the East Alabama Medical Center. Carter was 93-years-old, according to reports he was scheduled to speak at an event in honor of the upcoming Veteran's Day. He flew 77 missions with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. Carter […]
George Hickman was an original member of the Tuskegee Airmen, America’s first black military fighter pilots and ground crew during WWII. The former Cadet Captain from St. Louis was the grandson of slaves. He was banned from flying after talking back to a white superior officer who mistreated a fellow black cadet; Hickman took it […]
SEATTLE (AP) — George Hickman, one of the original Tuskegee airmen and a longtime usher at University of Washington and Seattle Seahawks games, has died at age 88. His wife, Doris, confirmed Monday that he died early Sunday morning in Seattle. Hickman was one of the country's first black military pilots and ground crew members […]
Gado Images, a business that provides historical photo licenses and prints, has announced the release of new technology called Open Computer Vision which uses facial recognition from scanned photos to search by person, specifically from the photo collection of the Afro-American newspapers. The Afro-American was founded in 1892 by a former slave named John H. […]
Decades after WWII, two American fighter pilots, one, Herb Heilbrun, a white B-17 pilot, and the other, John Leahr, a black Red-Tail Tuskegee Airman, found one another 50 years post war. Heilbrun and Leahr discovered that not only did Leahr serve as a Tuskegee escort pilot for Heilbrun during WWII, the two men had attended […]
Decades after WWII, two American fighter pilots, one, Herb Heilbrun, a white B-17 pilot, and the other, John Leahr, a black Red-Tail Tuskegee Airman, found one another 50 years post war. Heilbrun and Leahr discovered that not only did Leahr serve as a Tuskegee escort pilot for Heilbrun during WWII, the two men had attended […]
Tom Joyner and the crew go behind the scenes of the sound effects in the movie "Red Tails."
Tom, Sybil and J watch how "Red Tails" literally started from nothing to becoming a hit film.
