Remembering when Tuskegee Airmen ran the National Organization
of Tuskegee Airmen, they were receiving and accepting invitations
from people in high places to be guests at $1,500 dinners and sitting
next to members of Ronald Reagan’s cabinet, George Shultz, Caspar
Weinberger, Samuel Pierce, and Alexander Haig. They were
“walking in high cotton”!
Many of the Airmen from the chapter in New York, Claude Govan –
Tri-State TAI Chapter and East Coast Chapter were walking the red
carpet, frequently.
Singling out the airmen who were members of the CG, Tri-State
Chapter were frequently in the news. I guess we should refer to them
as newsmakers! Alton A. Burton, lead engineer hired by Nelson
Rockefeller; Roscoe Brown, Dean of Bronx Community College;
Percy L. Sutton, Malcom X’s attorney, started the New York
Marathon, Deputy mayor of New York city; Lee Archer, regularly flew
General B. O. Davis to New York, Vice President of Urban Affairs at
General Foods Corp.; Reginald Brewster, first black attorney to have
an office on Time Square; Dabney Montgomery, drove the jeep that
stopped on the tracks in Italy that hijacked the train carrying German
wing tanks; Adley Coulthurst first black CPA in New York; Wilfred
DeFour, responsible for tails of the planes being painted red; Samuel
Wesley Henderson, who sang back up for Jackie Wilson and Harry
Belefonte; Arthurine Carter worked on the right wing of the P-51;

Spann Watson and Elwood Driver worked in senior management for
the FAA, President John F. Kennedy made a phone call to the FAA
and Spann Watson was appointed to the FAA; both Spann and
Elwood were responsible for opening the doors that Black women
walked through to become flight attendants.

When I asked, what would these gentlemen have thought about King
Charles III visiting Harlem? “They would have been pleased,” said
Patt Terrelongue, Chapter President Claude Govan 2002 – 2008.

Patt Terrelongue

Roscoe Brown and Cora Marie “Tess” Spooner

Harlan Leonard (L), William Melton (sitting) , Robert Ashby(end R)

Left to right: Elwood Driver, William Melton, sorry I don’t recognize
the gentleman, Lincoln Ragsdale, John Whitehead, Mitch
Higginbotham, Robert Ashby, Robert Higginbotham, and Alexander
Jefferson.

May 1, 2026
Oakland Post, front page:

Britain’s King Charles III Feeds Chickens in
Visit to Urban Farm in Harlem
By Conway Jones

King.Charles.III.tosses.chickens.leafy.greens¡
Britain’s King Charles III visited Harlem in New York City on the third
day of his first state visit to the United States. He and his wife, Queen
Camilla, spent their first two days in Washington, D.C., where their
hosts were U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania
Trump.
The British monarch made a solo stop at Harlem Grown, a nonprofit
urban farm in Harlem. He was welcomed by Tony Hillery, its founder
and chief executive. The farm’s mission is to inspire youth to lead
healthy and ambitious lives through mentorship and hands-on

Continued page 8.
education in urban farming, sustainability, and nutrition.
The King was shown around by Harlem Grown members and
schoolchildren from Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School. He
saw the raised beds, house, tool shed, composting station, chicken
coops, beehives and more, all located in the middle of a city block.
King Charles was enthusiastic about feeding chickens — after all, he
tends to the animals back in the U.K. His flock lives in a coop dubbed
Cluckingham Palace.
While the king was in Harlem, Queen Camilla had a solo event in
downtown Manhattan at the New York Public Library. She visited The
Queen’s Reading Room with guests Sarah Jessica Parker, Jenna
Bush Hager, and Anna Wintour.
The King traditionally stays above politics. Hopefully, his U.S. tour will
help ease tensions in U.S.- United Kingdom relations that are strained

by the war in Iran.

The PDF files for the front and back pages of the Oakland
Post, 4/29/2026, are attached.
Very respectfully,
/signed/
Conway Jones
康威· 琼斯
Director, Public & Media Relations
The Post News Group
360 14th Street, Suite BO5

Oakland, CA 94612-2715

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Tell me about the Airmen that who you knew, who knew you, what do you
think they would have said in response to the way the United States
Supreme Court ruled about the story below?

Supreme Court ruled 6-3 today in Louisiana v. Callais that the state’s
congressional map, which included two majority-Black districts, was an
unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

April 29, 2026
In a decision issued on April 29, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3
in Louisiana v. Callais that the state’s congressional map, which included
two majority-Black districts, was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
Key Aspects of the Decision:

• Ruling: The Court found that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 did not
  compel Louisiana to create a second majority-minority district (SB8),
  and that the map improperly prioritized race.
• • Majority Opinion: Written by Justice Samuel Alito, the decision
  affirmed that the map violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal
  Protection Clause.
• • Vote Split: The 6-3 decision fell along ideological lines, with a dissent
  written by Justice Kagan, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson.
• • Impact: The decision deemed the map an unconstitutional racial
  gerrymander.

The case was heavily contested, with an emergency stay in 2024 allowing
the maps to be used for that year’s election before the merits were argued
and reargued in 2025.

I’ll share your responses in the next edition of !TFAM

I love you madly!
L. Sunnye Simpson
Editor and publisher