The legacy of Black aviation is a point of pride in Gary, where the contributions of the Tuskegee Airmen — trailblazing pilots who fought for America abroad and equality at home — are honored through tributes like a statue at the Gary Aquatorium and a bridge at Gary/Chicago International Airport.
President Donald Trump's executive order dismantles DEI programs on a federal level, but efforts continue from Montgomery to Tuskegee.
Controversy erupts over the Air Force's decision to remove Tuskegee Airmen video amid Trump's executive orders on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Britt’s office said “resistance style antics” to cast the history of the Tuskegee Airmen as DEI were intended to attack and undermine Trump’s executive order.
The removal of videos honoring Black and female WWII pilots sparked widespread outrage.The Air Force has since reversed its decision, dismissing the controversy as a "rumor."
The Air Force pulled the course for review last week following the Trump administration's sweeping order barring diversity programs.
A basic training course that included a video about the famed World War II Black aviators was shut down last week in response to President Trump's DEI ban.
U.S. Air Force reportedly reversed course Sunday on its decision to remove the videos following President Donald Trump’s executive orders banning diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) across the federal government.
The Pentagon’s intelligence agency has put on hold observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other annual historical or cultural events due to
Learn how President Trump's diversity, equity, and inclusion ban threatened to erase the Tuskegee Airmen from U.S. Air Force training, but was later reversed.
To hear that their heroic acts were almost erased from history by the branch of the U.S. Armed Forces they helped, is a slap in the face of Black America, says Bea Hines.