Tuskegee Airmen

Artist confronts opposition to same-sex marriage

2013-02-22 04:28:00

It is not unusual to see art that tackles social and political issues, but there's still something startling about Jeffrey Kent's solo show "Preach!" at the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park. The Baltimore artist zeros in on opposition by some...

Baltimore Police honor sergeant who served amid segregation

2012-07-17 15:20:20

James Dixon joined the Baltimore Police Department in 1954 as a black officer in an era of widespread racial prejudice. Police posts were segregated and blacks were not allowed in patrol cars On Tuesday, a quarter-century after he retired as a sergeant,...

Towson Fourth: Parade honorees saw war, bigotry and victory as Tuskegee Airmen

2012-06-27 14:16:00

Since the cinematic release early this year of the movie "Red Tails,"about the all-black Tuskegee Airmen who fought in World War II, Baltimore County's two "DOTA" – Documented Original Tuskegee Airmen – have been in high demand. Cyril Byron,...

Seventy years later, pioneering black Marines honored

2012-06-10 19:08:00

When the train full of Marine recruits from Baltimore reached Washington, the blacks were made to move to the back. At boot camp in North Carolina, they were forbidden to step onto Camp Lejeune without a white escort. But the worst of it, Howard...

Calling all kids: Towson Fourth of July Parade recruiting for annual bike rush

2012-06-15 07:05:00

It takes an active and dedicated committee, scores of volunteers and a significant budget to pull off the annual Towson Fourth of July parade. But even with all that, it takes something extra to truly get Towson's Independence Day celebration off on...

Catonsville Marine to receive Congressional Gold Medal nearly 70 years after service

2012-06-25 00:00:00

William Foreman wasn't looking to make history when he elected to join the United States Marine Corps after the Selective Service System called his number for World War II. The lifelong Catonsville resident could have joined the Army or Navy, like most...

Maryland will feature prominently in Smithsonian's latest museum

2012-02-22 14:57:28

When the country's largest museum devoted to African-American history and culture opens in Washington, Maryland people and places will get a healthy share of the limelight. A two-story log house built by freed slaves from Montgomery County, dubbed the...

'The Wire' has ended, but its talent is still being tapped

2011-08-12 00:00:00

With Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's guilty plea last week to conspiracy to sell heroin, one question being asked by fans of "The Wire" is how other cast members of the Baltimore-based series are doing. The answer: Several are doing just fine professionally....

Dec. 7 not just another day in Harford, now or in 1941

2011-12-07 08:20:38

Seventy years ago today, at shortly before 8 in the morning of Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, in Hawaii, the first wave of Japanese aircraft attacked the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor, plunging the United States into World War II. But two days before the attack,...

Datebook

2012-03-23 00:00:00

Sunday, March 25 Fundraiser The Goshen Farm Preservation Society's annual "Java & Jazz Event," a fundraiser to benefit the restoration and preservation of Goshen Farm in Cape St. Claire, will be held from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at St. Margaret's Episcopal...

Harts M. Brown

2011-07-05 13:31:00

Harts Morrison Brown, a retired management consultant who had been a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, died June 24 of lung cancer at the Veteran Administration Rehabilitation and Extended Care Center in Northeast Baltimore. The...

Tuskegee Airmen offer insights into era of segregation

2012-02-22 18:55:54

When he was a Tuskegee Airman on an Alabama air base in the 1940s, Cecil O. Byron and other members of the all-black squadron could not shop or dine in the nearby town. They were relegated to the balcony at the movies and could not leave the theater until...

Rendering shows design of planned monument to Tuskegee Airmen Red Tail pilots at Orlando Science Center.

2013-05-07 16:10:00

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