KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Colonel Reginald Bassa, Sr., a Tuskegee Institute graduate and one of the oldest living Tuskegee Airmen, served a successful 30-year career in the United States Air Force. He was ...

The Tuskegee Airmen soar across American military lore some 80 years after victory in World War II. The heroic U.S. Army Air Forces pilots battled for equality at home before they battled the Nazis in ...

Tuskegee University is reviving its historic ties to aviation with the launch of a new Aviation Science program. Tuskegee University is charting a new course for students with the launch of its ...

O n April 6, 1968, two days after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a confrontation unfolded at the Tuskegee Institute, the historic land-grant college in eastern Alabama. Twelve members of ...

Editor's Note: Beginning March 25, 2024, KSHB 41 will air a three-part series on the Tuskegee Airmen with a focus on those who were born in Kansas and Missouri. Part one tells the story of Virgil ...

Decades after the first African American pilots trained at the Tuskegee Institute, a new generation of pilots is ready to take flight. Kembriah Parker is a Tuskegee University student who just got her ...

With members of a trailblazing Black Air Force unit passing away at advanced ages, efforts to remain true to their memory carry on despite sometimes confusing orders from President Donald Trump as he ...

INDIANAPOLIS – Protecting freedom isn’t always as black and white as we may think. Central Indiana historians found at least 14 local Hoosiers were part of an esteemed, all Black squadron: the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The folks over at the Grand Rapids Public Library made a fascinating discovery while digging through their massive archives back in March 2021, and are now sharing them with the ...

A great fat-pine bonfire crackled and shone one night last week at the railroad station of Tuskegee, Ala. With dark faces shining, 1,600 students of Tuskegee Institute cheered, hollered and sang ...