Tuskegee Airmen

Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'Orphan Black'

2013-05-31 14:52:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of June 2 - 8, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- TV HIGHLIGHTS SERIES Orphan Black Sarah...

Members of Congress send letter urging Redskins to change name

2013-05-29 06:40:00

The Washington Redskins name-change controversy just won't go away. Two weeks after Dan Snyder, the owner of the Redskins, said he will never change the team's name as long as he owns the franchise, 10 members of Congress sent letters urging a name...

PASSINGS: Dallas Willard, Jack Butler, Fredrick McKissack

2013-05-13 00:00:00

Dallas Willard Influential Christian philosopher taught at USC for 47 years Dallas Willard, 77, an influential Christian philosopher who taught at USC for 47 years and chaired the philosophy department in the early 1980s, died Wednesday in Woodland...

Dodgers plan series of activities for Jackie Robinson celebration

2013-04-15 14:00:00

The anniversary is No. 66, which, although not particularly special numerically, feels more celebratory this year with the release of the film “42.” That would be “42,” the story of Jackie Robinson integrating baseball and...

Portion of freeway in San Diego dedicated to Tuskegee Airmen

2013-02-23 08:52:51

PASSINGS: Dyer Brainerd Holmes, T.S. Cook, Joel Schaeffer

2013-01-15 00:00:00

Dyer Brainerd Holmes NASA manned space flight director Dyer Brainerd Holmes, 91, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, died Friday at a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., of...

Maria Cole dies at 89; singer was widow of Nat King Cole

2012-07-13 00:00:00

Maria Cole, the widow of music legend Nat King Cole and the mother of singer Natalie Cole whose own singing career included a stint as vocalist for Duke Ellington's orchestra in the mid-1940s, has died. She was 89. Cole died Tuesday at a hospice in...

Raymond L. Johnson Sr. dies at 89; lawyer, civil rights activist

2012-01-09 00:00:00

Raymond L. Johnson Sr., an attorney, civil rights activist and former Tuskegee Airman, died Dec. 31 in Los Angeles of complications of pneumonia and heart failure, said his wife, Evelyn. He was 89. Johnson, who practiced law for nearly 50 years, was a...

Movie Projector: Fourth 'Underworld' to soar higher than 'Red Tails'

2012-01-19 16:33:44

Box Office: Fourth 'Underworld' film is No. 1 on strong weekend [Updated]

2012-01-22 16:33:50

Sundance 2012: Spike Lee's co-writer joins the race conversation

2012-01-26 16:38:19

Box Office: 'The Grey' shines bright in opening weekend

2012-01-29 16:33:40

A group of African American men were trained as fighter pilots. They were called the Tuskegee Airmen.

2013-06-13 12:41:34

Retired Tuskegee Airmen (l-r) Lt. Col. Hiram Mann, Col. Charles McGee, Maj. Joe Gomer and Richard Rutledge hold their commemorative statues during a ceremony at the African American Research Library in Fort Lauderdale honoring the mens' service during WWII.

2013-01-30 10:29:25

Retired Tuskegee Airman 1st Lt. Yenwith Whitney, 81, a retired first lieutenant. He's 81 who lives in Sarasota, greets retired B-24 combat flight engineer Alfred Weber, 85, of Boynton Beach who was rescued by the Tuskegee Airmen while flying a mission over Italy during WWII.

2013-01-30 10:29:27