Freedom Fighters in the Sky
In 1944, thousands of African-American pilots flew out of American bases in Europe to fight the German Nazi regime in World War II. As much as they wanted to find equality in the right to fight, they were prohibited in their own home country from mixing with whites. Their story? It is the story of the Tuskegee Airmen. Image from Google Images I kicked off my war film series with Anthony Hemingway’s Red Tails , which starred Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding Jr. among many other talented actors. Red Tails portrayed a historically fictional depiction of the Tuskegee Airmen’s plight during WWII and the dawn of the incorporation of black pilots in combat missions, which eventually led to desegregation of the military. With its fast-paced action as well as its realistic scenes of racism and camaraderie built between African-Americans and some of the wh...