First organized as a “racial experiment,” a contingent of Black Americans began training to be aviators at Tuskegee, Alabama, ...

A reader says eliminating the narratives of Tuskegee airmen and women pilots in our military history is a massive step ...

He never once mentioned that he was a Tuskegee Airman. I knocked on his office door and approached him about it. I’ll never forget his warm smile and handshake that day. It was an honor.

Thomas Hawkins served and died in World War II, part of the elite group of African American pilots known as Tuskegee Airmen.

In 1941, a segregated airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama, was selected as the primary flight training facility for black pilot candidates in the United States military.   They were known as the ...

In 2007, the Tuskegee Airmen were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. In 2019, Stewart's memoir ... the institution’s highest honor, for their accomplishments and patriotism in the face of ...

He was the first airman to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War and only the 19th in the service’s history. His photo will be displayed at the museum entrance, and his story will be ...

This led to the Tuskegee Airman eventually being awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2006. And only six years ago, Stewart and Philip Handleman co-authored Soaring to Glory: A Tuskegee Airman ...

John Levitow, shown here in 1996, was the first enlisted airman to receive the Medal of Honor, earning the award for his actions during the Vietnam War. (National Archives) The Vietnam War was ...

Lloyd "Fig" Newton was just the seventh African American to become a four-star general. He says Trump is trying to whitewash ...