CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.

During Black History Month, we are honoring Tuskegee Airmen commanding officer Benjamin Davis Jr. After attending the ...

The Red Tails’ most significant mission was the escort of B-17 bombers on a bombing run over Berlin in March 1945. They flew ...

Jotham T. Coleman, whom researchers have little information about, was hired as a conductor by the Independent Subway System ...

Ellsworth Dansby III spoke about his father, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, at the African American Cultural and ...

Jeff Benjamin is an award-winning music and travel journalist, editor, curator and host in New York City covering international pop music. Writing professionally since 2011, the Senior Contributor ...

The name change back to Bragg could also be seen as a slap against some of the highly decorated service members whose names are now used for the bases. The former Fort Gordon in Georgia, for example, ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen and earned ...

Sid Cassidy, a long-serving official and advocate for open water swimming, was named the 2025 recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America on ...

Black men whose courage, dedication, and success helped pave the way toward integration of the United States Armed Forces. In honor of Black History Month, the Perrin Air Force Base Museum combined ...

John Lawrence Davis II, 71, departed this life on Tuesday ... Kilpatrick of College Park, MD; one brother, George Jones Jr. (Jean); a devoted nephew, Robert L. Sanford Jr. (Carsulina); two ...