By The Admin on February 5, 2012
Eighty-five-year-old Mervin Harmon and 87-year-old Charles Chenier both remember the night they went to see the movie “Red Tails” in Lafayette. The movie, a George Lucas action film, is based on the story of the first group of African American fighter pilots in military history who fought in World War II. They were known as [...]
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By The Admin on February 5, 2012
Fans of “Soul Train” boogied down Broadway wearing afro wigs and bell bottoms on Saturday while others recounted their favorite episodes at a Harlem meeting hall in tribute to the TV show’s late creator, Don Cornelius.
About 100 dancers descended on Times Square in a “flash mob” organized through the Internet. As startled tourists looked on, [...]
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By The Admin on February 2, 2012
“Soul Train” host Don Cornelius was the arbiter of cool, a brilliant TV showman who used his purring, baritone voice to seduce mainstream America into embracing black music and artists.
But the “love, peace, and SOUL!” he wished viewers as he closed each show for decades escaped him as his life descended into marital trouble, illness [...]
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By The Admin on February 2, 2012
The fantasy find for historian Lonnie G. Bunch III includes a tattered pair of pantaloons made of that old “Negro cloth” and a coarse linen shirt that all but disintegrated on the back of its enslaved owner. Maybe a thrashed pair of brogans, too, worn around the plantation until the soles fell off.
“Slave clothing,” Bunch [...]
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By The Admin on January 26, 2012
With George Lucas’ Red Tails soaring at the box office, The National WWII Museum announces its acquisition and restoration of a P-51 Mustang, the aircraft depicted in Hollywood’s drama about the courageous fighter pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen.
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American aviators in the United States military. They comprised the United [...]
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