Check out my red carpet footage at the Red Tails movie premier! I had the chance to interview Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Tika Sumpter, Method Man and more! Red Tails hits theaters TODAY!

Executive producer, George Lucas: “These men were heroes at a time when the military was racially segregated and there was widespread doubt about whether blacks had the courage or intelligence to fly fighter planes. (The film, which was directed by Anthony Hemingway, opens with a particularly egregious quote from a 1925 US Army study citing blacks’ innate inferiority for military training.)”

According to Lucas, who ended up financing a large portion of this film himself, the long delay in getting it made – its development began in earnest around 1988 – was because Hollywood, which sees little market overseas for such films, is loath to finance a largely all-black movie with no major white roles….Damn shame….