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

One of the few surviving Tuskegee Airmen passed away early this month, reports AL.com’s Alaina Bookman. He died in his home in suburban Detroit, Michigan. Harry Stewart Jr. was born in Virginia. After ...

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 ...

Johnson is the 18-year-old that was shot and killed in a mass shooting during Tuskegee University’s centennial celebration last year. “Taking it one day at a time,” said Latavion’s mother Tamika ...

Five men who served in World War II as Tuskegee Airmen are honored in a Kokomo mural and a local gallery is sharing their stories.

an 18-year-old Stewart joined what was then considered an experiment to train Black military pilots. The unit was sometimes known as the Tuskegee Airmen for where they trained in Alabama or the ...

(Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP) First organized as a “racial experiment,” a contingent of Black Americans began training to be aviators at Tuskegee, Alabama, during World War II.