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Is Tyler Perry responsible for 'Red Tails' box office success?

By Chris Witherspoon

11:17 AM on 01/23/2012

theGRIO REPORT - 'Red Tails' came had a strong opening at the box office this weekend, and many are saying that the Tyler Perry helped....
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Slideshow: The Tuskegee Airmen's legacy still soars

By theGrio

9:00 PM on 01/22/2012

SLIDESHOW - America's first black military fighter pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen used their intelligence, skill, and courage to ignore discrimination and break racial barriers...
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Tristan Wilds: Career of Red Tails' youngest star is taking flight

By Chris Witherspoon

6:00 AM on 01/21/2012

theGRIO REPORT - Tristan Wilds, the youngest star in the cast of 'Red Tails,' opens up about his role in the film and his future music plans...
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'Red Tails': If George Lucas war film flops, are black audiences to blame?

By Adam Howard

6:00 AM on 01/20/2012

OPINION - 'Red Tails' won't attract audiences because it was hard to finance. The film will have to deliver dramatically or it will have been all for naught...
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Anthony Hemingway, 'Red Tails' director, on George Lucas, air fights and selling young viewers on the Tuskegee Airmen

By theGrio

3:17 PM on 01/18/2012

Making your debut as a feature film director is already enough of a high-pressure situation, but for "Red Tails" director Anthony Hemingway, it was a once-in-a-lifetime scenario...
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Obama to host Tuskegee Airmen, cast of 'Red Tails'

By Perry Bacon Jr.

3:00 PM on 01/13/2012

theGRIO REPORT - President Obama on Friday afternoon will host the Tuskegee Airmen and the cast and crew of the new film about the pilots called "Red Tails" for a screening of the movie at the White House...
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The legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen lives on in 'Red Tails'

By theGrio

11:21 AM on 01/12/2012

VIDEO - Anticipation is building for George Lucas' movie 'Red Tails' about The Tuskegee Airmen, black pilots in the segregated military in World War II...
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Tuskegee Airmen exhibit gets new home at GA museum

By theGrio

8:33 AM on 11/28/2011

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. (AP) - The new location includes the addition of a replica of a hangar from Moton Field in Tuskegee, Ala...
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Tuskegee Airman buried at Arlington Cemetery

By theGrio

11:52 AM on 07/30/2010

WASHINGTON - Col. Spann Watson, one of the famed black flyers who fought in WWII, joins the ranks of the country's fallen at Arlington National Cemetery...
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Doctors: More blacks must participate in medical trials

By theGrio

9:24 AM on 07/30/2010

VIDEO - Medical oncologist Dr. Sandra Swain is leading a new initiative at Washington Hospital Center to recruit more African American patients in trials...
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Legendary Tuskegee airmen land off-Broadway

By theGrio

9:15 AM on 06/09/2010

VIDEO - For a special unit of black men, they weren't only battling the enemy abroad; they were fighting for their right to fight...
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Leader of first black-owned business to go public dies

By theGrio

11:34 AM on 05/25/2010

BALTIMORE (AP) - African-American business community leader and former Parks Sausage Co. chief executive officer Raymond V. Haysbert Sr. has died at age 90...
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Tuskegee Airman Lee Archer dead at 90

By theGrio

12:54 PM on 01/29/2010

NEW YORK (AP) -- Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Lee A. Archer, a Tuskegee Airman considered to be the only black ace pilot who also broke racial barriers as an executive at a major U.S. company...
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Tuskegee Airmen to be honored with Rose Bowl float

By theGrio

12:02 PM on 12/29/2009

The Tuskegee Airmen are being honored for the new year. Not with speeches, medals or awards--but a float in a parade...
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Percy Sutton, attorney, politician and media mogul, dies at 89

By theGrio

8:13 AM on 12/27/2009

VIDEO - Percy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before launching successful careers as a political power broke...
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Conspiracy theories about HIV do real harm

By Kenyon Farrow

10:00 AM on 12/16/2009

OPINION - HIV/AIDS conspiracy theories circulate in homes, barber shops, churches, and among activists in the African-American community.
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Tuskegee airman turned civil rights lawyer dies at 88

By theGrio via AP

5:00 PM on 09/01/2009

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) -- Former Tuskegee Airman Robert Decatur, who became a judge and civil rights lawyer, will be buried in Biloxi this week...
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Blacks' mistrust of medical system limits organ donations

By Dr. Icilma Fergus

5:22 PM on 08/04/2009

An ambitious campaign to increase black enrollment on organ donation began in...
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Teen pilot sets record

By theGrio

8:50 AM on 07/08/2009

A teenaged pilot flies into the record books. She's the youngest African American female to pilot an airplane transcontinentally. It was a record she set over the weekend. It was a flawless landing for a single engine plane piloted...
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Teenage girl pilots plane cross country

By theGrio

8:00 PM on 06/29/2009

A California teen tries to make history by reaching for the skies. Fifteen-year-old pilot Kimberly Anyadike (on-ya-DEE-kay) left Compton, California for Newport News, Virginia today. Her 10 day trip will end with a return to Compton...
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