December 16, 2012 11:23 am by: John Hanson
On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with the late General Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Davis was an aviation pioneer; he was one of the most famous
Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. However, his military career spanned five decades and three wars. He was the first African-American officer in the Army Air Forces, and was a member of the first African-American pilot-training class at Tuskegee Army Airfield in Alabama.
Davis was born in December 18
th, 1912 in Washington, D.C., the son of a retired Army brigadier general. He was the first African-American to graduate from
West Point. His four years there were not pleasant. Being an African American, he was officially "silenced" by all cadets--no one spoke to him for four years except on official business; he roomed alone and he had no friends.
Davis...
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A week ago, we brought you a new episode of John Pierson's Master Class and took that as an opportunity to mock O'Dark alum Rebecca McInroy; we mentioned that, unlike our buddy John, Rebecca's the kind of boring nobody who's never even met Robert Redford, much less feuded with him. Well, it turns out that Rebecca actually has met Robert Redford, when she shook his hand at some film festival or something. So consider this a rare correction to the O'Dark podcast page: we were technically wrong about Rebecca, even though we stand by the decision to mock her for no good reason without any kind of fact-checking.
Moving on! We've got another edition of Master Class for you today, as John Pierson chats it up with acclaimed film director Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids... » read more
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Ruby Jane is a 13-year-old professional fiddler. This is what her job sounds like.
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The sound of the Frankenstein-style movie projector at the Dobie Theater.
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