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Meet the 100-Year-Old Tuskegee Airman Who Proved Racism Wrong and Inspired Generations

Former Tuskegee Airman Eugene Richardson attends his 100th birthday celebration in Springfield, Pennsylvania.

When Eugene Richardson joined the Army in 1944, it was segregated, and no Black man had ever served as a pilot in the military. Still, Richardson wanted to be a pilot. He knew that “things would be better in the future. They’re not always going to be as it were at that particular moment,” Richardson […]