Text DFW to 24042 to join 97.9 The Beat’s mobile club for exclusive news (Terms & Conditions) Lets pause for the cause during this Black History month kick off. Press play and dive into a legacy that started back in 1941 at a airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama. The first African American aerial combat militia who fought in World War. […]

Wilfred DeFour, who served with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, died on Saturday in New York. He was 100. DeFour had just attended a ceremony last month honoring the Tuskegee Airmen by renaming a Harlem post office after them. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military pilots.   https://twitter.com/WTOP/status/1071509723608944640 Follow The Beat […]

Willie Rogers, who also served with the Red Tail Angels, passed away from complications from a previous stroke.

Brown flew in 68 combat missions for the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots in U.S. history, but he was also a committed to public service as an educator and university leader.

Milton Crenchaw, a flight instructor who trained the Tuskegee Airmen, has died. https://t.co/5SaFgJwSnV pic.twitter.com/k0cvK4SYsm — Dothan Eagle (@dothaneagle) November 18, 2015 Milton Crenchaw, one of…

Experts say that today's housing discrimination is still present and is much more subtle, as Black renters are turned away from certain areas.

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Police in St. Louis are searching for suspects who robbed and carjacked a 93-year-old Tuskegee airman in two separate incidents Sunday. The first incident occurred when…

In the last of TheUrbandaily.com’s interviews with the cast of Red Tails, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. gives us his first hand recollections about flying a fighter plane in World War II and how accurate he felt the movie was.  The cast also speak on the impact the Tuskegee […]