Experience Talks 1/7: Ron Brewington – Tuskegee Airmen Legacy

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This week: Host Bobbee Zeno discusses “The Tuskegee Airmen Legacy” with Ron Brewington, Historian and Vice-President of the LA Chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc.

Ron Brewington is a well-known radio and television broadcaster and a 2007 inductee into the Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Brewington held positions as an anchor/reporter at various stations before settling as the Los Angeles bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks, a job he held for seventeen years. Subsequently, he became a stringer for Associated Press Radio Network and also contributed to Chatbusters News Service in the United Kingdom as the Los Angeles correspondent. He has produced a number of nationally syndicated radio programs and also hosted and wrote the R&B Superstars Series. He is a U.S. Navy veteran and has degrees in Journalism and Broadcast Journalism. Read more about him on The HistoryMakers website.

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American military aviators in the United States armed forces. Formally, they were the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps. Read extensive information about their history and their significant and ongoing accomplishments on their website.