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The Tale of the Tuskegee Airmen Is Told in a New Documentary
Time via AOL· 2 days agoRoosevelt famously traveled to Tuskegee to be photographed in a plane with an African American ...
'I've never felt so special': Boone County veteran honored for World War II service
Columbia Daily Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoWe remember not just the size, significance and complexity of this (D-Day) operation but those that...
Mother of gunned down Airman says she keeps ‘hoping it’s a dream’
WSB Cox articles via Yahoo News· 3 days agoChannel 2′s Tyisha Fernandes spoke one-on-one Monday with the airman’s mother, Meka Fortson She told...
Florida deputy who shot Black airman is fired from his job
Washington Post· 6 days agoThe Florida deputy who killed a Black Air Force airman in his apartment was fired from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office on Friday, after an internal ...
The last WWII vets converge on Normandy for D-Day and fallen friends and to cement their legacy
Houston Chronicle· 2 days agoUnder their feet, the sands of Omaha Beach, and in their rheumy eyes, tears that inevitably flowed...
Centenarian veterans are sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years later
Seattle Times· 3 days ago“I am the luckiest man in the world,” D-Day veteran Jake Larson, a 101-year-old American best known...
Working for Well-Being | American Libraries Magazine
American Libraries Magazine· 4 days agoOver the past decade, mental health support in libraries has grown more inventive, specific, and widespread. American Libraries spoke with workers from...
Roy S. Johnson: On D-Day 80 years ago, Black heroes stormed the shores, too
Birmingham News· 21 hours agoThe near-three-month World War II campaign under Gen. (and future President) Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Film highlights finding of Tuskegee airman's plane 70 years after crash in Lake Huron
Detroit News· 2 days agoA World War II plane piloted by a Tuskegee Airman went down in 1944 in Lake Huron, and until a dive...
Sojourner Truth statue unveiled at the site of 1851 ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ speech
theGrio· 5 days agoTruth, a formerly enslaved person, delivered the speech to a crowd gathered at the Universalist Old...