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SUMMARY:Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen
LOCATION:Chevy Chase Neighborhood Library\nChevy Chase Neighborhood Librar
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of Cheryl W. Thompson's book\, Forgot
 ten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen and a Presentation by t
 he East Coast Chapter of Tuskegee Airmen\, Inc..\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet
 .info/event/16649766
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Join us at the Chevy Chase Neighborhood Li
 brary for a special presentation by the <strong>East Coast Chapter of the 
 Tuskegee Airmen\, Inc</strong>. Learn about the history\, achievements\, a
 nd enduring legacy of the pioneering African American military aviators wh
 o served with distinction during WWII.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><img src="https://st
 atic.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/dclibrary/east_coast_chapter_tuske
 gee_airmen.jpg" width="88" height="100" alt="" style="display: block\; mar
 gin-left: auto\; margin-right: auto\;" /></p>\n<hr />\n<p><br />NPR invest
 igative journalist\, author\, and daughter of a Tuskegee Airman\,&nbsp\;<s
 trong>Cheryl W. Thompson</strong> will also join us. She&nbsp\;returns to 
 DCPL to discuss her book&nbsp\;<strong>Forgotten Souls: The Search for the
  Lost Tuskegee Airmen</strong>. In it she explores the stories of 27 Tuske
 gee Airmen who went missing and all but 2 of their remains were found. Ms.
  Thompson will discuss the impact of their loss on their families and comm
 unities.</p>\n<h4><strong>About Forgotten Souls:</strong></h4>\n<p>Forgott
 en Souls by Cheryl W. Thompson honors the 1\,000 Black Tuskegee Airmen who
  battled severe military racism while proving their courage during WWII. T
 he book investigates the disappearance of 27 pilots during final European 
 missions and the subsequent failure of the government to provide closure t
 o their families over the past 80 years.</p>\n<hr />\n<p style="text-align
 : center\;"><br /><strong>Books for sale provided by local bookstore\, Sol
 id State Books</strong></p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><strong><img 
 src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/dclibrary/solid_sta
 te.jpg" width="105" height="95" alt="" /></strong></p>\n<hr />\n<p style="
 text-align: left\;"><strong>About the Author</strong></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><im
 g src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/dclibrary/Screens
 hot_2026-06-01_154940.jpg" width="103" height="154" alt="" style="float: l
 eft\; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px\;" />Cheryl W. Thompson&nbsp\;is an award-
 winning investigative correspondent for National Public Radio\, an associa
 te professor of journalism at George Washington University\, and author of
 &nbsp\;Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost&nbsp\;Tuskegee Airmen. She
  is the recipient of more than 40 journalism awards\, including an Emmy\, 
 5 National Headliners\, and 3 from IRE - Investigative Reporters and Edito
 rs. Thompson served as reporting coach for the Pulitzer Prize-winning NPR 
 podcast&nbsp\;No Compromise. During more than 20 years as a reporter for&n
 bsp\;The Washington Post\, she was part of teams that won two Pulitzer Pri
 zes for national reporting. She served as a Pulitzer Prize juror for the I
 nvestigative Reporting category in 2022 and chaired the jury in 2023. Thom
 pson is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists\, Alpha 
 Kappa Alpha Sorority\, Inc.\, and Investigative Reporters and Editors\, wh
 ere she was elected the first Black president in 2018 and served an unprec
 edented three terms. She is also a founding and current board member of th
 e Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism and a member of the ad
 visory board for the Fund for Investigative Journalism. She is currently a
  member of the National Press Foundation Board and the Spotlight DC Board\
 , and a two-time graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaig
 n. The daughter of a Tuskegee Airman\, Thompson is a Chicago native who li
 ves outside Washington\, DC\, and can be found online at CherylWThompson.c
 om.</p>\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/16649766
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