“Red Tails” a Double Victory, Then and Now
By: Nikki Woods, Black America Web
The highly anticipated movie "Red Tails" hits theatres this Friday, Jan. 20th. "Red Tails" stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard and Ne-Yo, among others, and tells the real-life account of the Tuskegee Airmen, an all-black World War II fighter pilot squad. The squadron, which was sent to North Africa and Italy to escort white bomber pilots, consisted of some of the best fighter pilots in the Air Corps.
Meet Roscoe Brown, one of those Tuskegee Airmen.
Growing up in the 1930s in Washington, D.C., Brown made model airplanes and imagined himself flying like the pilots he saw during air races that his parents took him to on weekends, although for a long time, flying was just a dream because of racial barriers. But his parents encouraged their two children - he was the younger child - to aspire to do great things.
Read the full story at Black America Web.
Nikki Woods is senior producer of "The Tom Joyner Morning Show." The author of "Easier Said Than Done," the Dallas-based Woods is currently working on her second and third novels. You can friend her on Facebook or follow her on Twitter: @nikkiwoods.
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Alumni: University Chapel Hill, New York University and Walden University
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Founder and CEO Human Communication Institute, LLC, Founded in 2005
HCI, LLC is a national and international Communication Consulting Firm, specializing in communication effectiveness training for personal and organizational leadership development, using her highly acclaimed Communication Staircase Model™, www.hci-global.com.
Prior to opening the Human Communication Institute, PS was a full-time, tenured Professor and worked for a variety of institutions helping to build Speech Communication Departments and Programs. Teaching institutions included: San Diego City and Mesa Colleges (CA), Clark Atlanta University, Georgia Perimeter (Dekalb College) (GA), Bunker Hill College, Northeastern University, (MA) MiraCosta College and Southwestern College (CA). In addition, she worked as a professional actor, musician, choreographer and director of Community Theater for many years.
Published author specializing in Personal Development using WORD Power as her major focus of writing: Poetry, Short Stories, Business Articles, Scholarly articles and Books.
In addition, PS enjoys writing about historical and current issues relevant to African American personal and community social health and enrichment.
Authored Books:
The Art and Science of Communication: Tools for Effective Communication in the Workplace, John Wiley & Sons, 2008
The Laws of Communication, (contributor) John Wiley & Sons, 2009
Wake Up Women! (contributor) 2009
Hobbies include: Acting, dancing, reading, cooking, mentoring youth, caring for animals and the elderly, and international travel