Based on extensive interviews with surviving members of the squadron, here is the history of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first group of African-American pilots in the history of the U.S. military.?The "R
Before Jackie Robinson crossed major league baseball's color line, there existed a parallel world of "blackball" with its own pantheon of superstars: Rube Foster, Oscar Charleston, Smokey Joe Williams
Satchel Paige was forty-two years old in 1948 when he became the first black pitcher in the American League. Although the oldest rookie around, he was already a legend. For twenty-two years, beginning
