Major Moton Ross, an Oak Park resident and former Tuskegee Airman, died of kidney failure Sunday at Providence Hospital in Southfield. He was 84.  Read more

On Jul. 19, 1941, the AAF began a program in Alabama to train black Americans as military pilots. Primary flight training was conducted by the Division of Aeronautics of Tuskegee Institute, the famed school of learning founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881.  Read more

July 14, 1943: The George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond, Missouri, was founded on this date. Diamond, Missouri, is located in Newton County in southwest Missouri. The 210 acre park is a unit of the National Park service and preserves the boyhood home of Carver as well as the 1881 Moses Carver house and [...]

Sarasota – Maury M. Reid, Jr was one of the country’s first black combat pilots in WWII.  But he was still fighting for the rights of Black people long after the war ended.  Read more

My earliest memory of the Tuskegee Airmen came from talks between those people who had lived in Tuskegee–my parents, aunts and uncles, etc.  Not only did they speak of the Airmen but Tuskegee Institute, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver and the numerous other folks residing in the area. But attending a predominately white school [...]

A student is suing Tuskegee University after school officials stripped her Ms. Tuskegee University title and awarded the title to another woman.  Read more 07/08/06 – Dispute heads to court – Read more

I’m a card-carrying member of the Dyann Robinson fan club. She’s an extraordinary dancer, educator and playwright. And she lives and works in Tuskegee, which is less than an hour from Columbus. Her latest production, “The Cotton Club Comes to ‘Skegee,” can be seen July 13-30 at the Jessie Clinton Arts Centre in downtown Tuskegee.   [...]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. Veteran attorney Fred Gray, who represented the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior and was chief counsel during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, will be honored for 51 years of service in promoting civil rights on July 17th.  Read more

The dead of summer 1973, a young afro’d Alice Walker hiked her skirt to her knees and set out across an overgrown cemetery in the small town of Fort Pierce to find the pauper’s grave of Zora Neale Hurston.  Read more

From it’s founding as a one-room normal school for the training of teachers, Tuskegee has risen to its current status as a comprehensive, deeply engaged and highly respected university.  Read more