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Washington Red Tails: The history of a possible name for D.C.'s NFL team

The Red Tails were the nickname for the Tuskegee Airmen, a cadre of pilots based out of Tuskegee, Alabama, who achieved distinction in World War II. Their name came from the stripe of red paint along ...
Newsweek

What is a Red Tail? Washington Renaming Could Honor WW2 Tuskegee Airmen

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Monday will be a watershed moment in the history of the Washington ...
Time

Washington’s NFL Team Could Be Renamed the ‘Red Tails.’ Real Tuskegee Airmen Have Mixed Feelings About That

Tuskegee Airmen, with fighter airplane, at Tuskegee Army Flying School during World War II, Tuskegee, Ala., 1944. Senior Correspondent Would Lt. Col. Harold Brown, one of America’s first ...
Grand Forks Herald

New film 'Red Tails' is a tribute to black pilots in WWII

DETROIT -- From "Sands of Iwo Jima" to "The Hurt Locker," there have been too many war movies to count. Yet little screen time has been devoted to the Tuskegee Airmen, the pioneering World War II ...
Washington City Paper

Tuskegee Airmen Non-Profit Would Welcome the Washington Red Tails

Since the local NFL team announced it would review its racist team name earlier this month, one option has risen to the top as the odds-on favorite replacement: the Red Tails. And now that the team ...