[BlackTree TV - NYC] BlackTree TV travels to NYC for the World Premier of Red Tails with a star studded carpet that included everybody but Beyonce and Baby Ivey. Our Entertainment Correspondent Chiderah Alisa talks to everyone from the cast of Red Tails to the Tuskegee Airmen themselves about the importance of this film.
WHO: From the film: Cuba Gooding Jr, Terrence Howard, Nate Parker, David Oyelowo, Method Man, Tristan
Wilds, Ne-Yo, Michael B. Jordan, Elijah Kelly, Leslie Odom Jr, Kevin Phillips, Lee Tergesen, Andre
Royo, Marcus T. Paulk, Executive Producer George Lucas, Producer Rick McCallum, Producer
Charles Floyd Johnson, Director Anthony Hemingway, Screenwriter Aaron McGruder, Screenwriter
John Ridley, Soundtrack Terence Blanchard
Special guests: Members of the original Tuskegee Airmen unit – Dr. Roscoe Brown, Roscoe
Draper, John Harrison, Samuel Henderson, Milton Holmes, Shade Lee, Bertram Levy, Charles
Lewis, Charles McGee, Dabney Montgomery, Henry Moore, Eugene Richardson, James Williams,
Theobald Wilson, Wilfred DeFour, Otis Foreman, Alton Burton and Robert Otis Merriweather.
Nancy Colon (first female African-American Flight Nurse in the U.S. Air Force)
Additional guests: Mellody Hobson, Wendi Murdoch, Al Roker and Deborah Roberts, Reverend
Al Sharpton, Angela Bassett, Francis Ford Coppola, Stephen Baldwin, Giancarlo Esposito,
Swizz Beats, Matt Stone, Nikki M. James, Philip Lewis, Spike Lee, Kareem McKenzie (NY Giants),
Rocsi Diaz, Tika Sumpter, Doug E. Fresh, Kimberly Locke, Monique Coleman, Marv Albert,
Antonio Cromartie (NY Jets)
George Lucas, who has created some of the most electrifying aerial battles in movie history, is now bringing to life
the stirring tale of the courageous black pilots of the Tuskegee program, unsung heroes who were our country’s last
hope against a seemingly unbeatable enemy.
