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Tuskegee DEI
January 27, 2025
US Air Force reverses course after removing Tuskegee Airmen video amid Trump DEI ban backlash with Pete Hegseth saying it…
thegrio, tuskegee airmen, WASPs, Trump, DEI
January 26, 2025
As the DEI fallout ensues, the Air Force has removed videos used during basic training that highlight historic Black and…
September 6, 2023
Defense Department officials have identified the remains of a Tuskegee pilot who went missing during World War II 79 years…
August 18, 2023
Wreckage from a Tuskegee airman's P-39 fighter plane that crashed during WWII training recovered from Lake Huron
Raymond Cassangol, Tuskegee airmen, theGrio.com
June 30, 2023
Raymond Cassagnol, a Haitian pilot and Tuskegee Airmen, the famed group of Black military aviators during World War II, has…
June 25, 2022
Alexander Jefferson, the last surviving founder of the Tuskeege Airmen’s Detroit chapter, has died at 100.
June 1, 2022
Famed Tuskegee airman Asa D. Herring Jr., who died Friday at 95, is recalled as "a wonderful man" with "the…
May 6, 2022
Retired Sgt. Victor W. Butler, who was a mechanic for the famed flying all-Black squadron, becomes a centenarian in two…
January 17, 2022
Charles McGee, a Tuskegee Airman who helped to bring attention to Black pilots who battled racism at home to fight…
Vice President Harris wishes Brigadier General Charles McGee a happy 102nd birthday.
December 10, 2021
Vice President Harris paid homage to Brigadier General Charles McGee who flew 409 combat sorties in three major wars.
January 9, 2021
Theodore Lumpkin Jr. was just days short of his 101st birthday. Tuskegee Airmen were the first Black pilots in the…
December 21, 2020
Alfred Thomas Farrar, a former Tuskegee Airman, died on Thursday in Virginia only days before a ceremony planned to honor…
December 10, 2020
In a letter provided to theGrio, Tuskegee Airmen Inc. expressed their support for Biden's defense secretary nominee Gen. Lloyd Austin.
Charles McGee theGrio.com
January 1, 2020
Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee was just promoted to Brigadier General after Donald Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act of…
Tuskegee Airmen
September 17, 2019
The U.S. Air Force will call its new trainer jet the T-7A Red Hawk, in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen,…
Dickson
March 25, 2019
Capt. Lawrence E. Dickson, a young Tuskegee Airman who lost his life while flying a reconnaissance mission, is finally laid…
December 9, 2018
Wilfred DeFour, one of the few living members of the Tuskegee Airmen was found dead Saturday in at home in…
August 18, 2015
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 93-year-old veteran who was part of the famed Tuskegee Airmen was the victim of crimes…
March 6, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - The definitive stamp, which immortalizes aviation trailblazer Charles Alfred Anderson, Sr., goes on sale nationwide from March…
August 1, 2013
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — John Edward Allen, a New Mexico veteran who served as a Tuskegee Airman during World War…