Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, to a social worker and a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen, Roberts eventually settled with her family in Pass Christian, Mississippi, just down the Gulf Coast from Biloxi. Before she became a household name, she found her audience on the basketball court. 🏀 🎥: @robbiecaponetto | Southern Living

German Pilots Mocked The Tuskegee ‘Red Tails’ — Then U Discover the extraordinary true story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the pioneering African American fighter pilots who shattered Nazi racial ideology and transformed aerial combat in World War II. Known as the "Red Tails" for their distinctively painted P-51 Mustangs and reportedly called "Schwarze Vogelmenschen" (Black Birdmen) by the German Luftwaffe, these elite pilots destroyed 112 enemy aircraft while protecting American bombers over Nazi Ger