{"id":178675,"date":"2026-02-24T22:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/178675\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T22:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:37:09","slug":"author-of-forgotten-souls-the-search-for-the-lost-tuskegee-airmen-to-discuss-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/178675\/","title":{"rendered":"Author of Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen to discuss book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ForgottenForgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen documents the lives and legacies of the 27 Black pilots who went missing near the end of combat on the European front. Credit: Courtesy Photo \/ TPR<\/p>\n

The San Antonio Book Festival, in partnership with Alamo Colleges District, Texas Public Radio and SAAACAM, this Thursday will present author Cheryl W. Thompson to discuss her book Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen. <\/p>\n

Thompson, an investigative journalist with NPR and the daughter of a Tuskegee Airman, documents the lives and legacies of the 27 Black pilots who went missing near the end of combat on the European front defending a country that treated them as disposable before, during and after World War II.<\/p>\n

Registration is recommended and an author signing session will follow the reading. <\/p>\n

Free, 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, Mal\u00fa & Carlos Alvarez Studio Theater at Texas Public Radio, 321 W. Commerce St., (210) 750-8951, sabookfestival.org.<\/p>\n

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