In conjunction with the Martin Luther King Jr holiday, Tuskegee University the birthplace of the famous fighter pilots will hold several screenings of the action-adventure movie Red Tails with an appearance by several cast members this weekend at the historic campus. According to a press release from the school, the festivities will kickoff on Saturday January 14 with shuttle bus tours of the Tuskegee Airmen site at 10 a-m followed by a Red Tails block party and cookout from 3 pm to 5 pm. The movie will then be screened twice on Sunday January 15 at 5 pm and at 8 pm at the Kellogg Conference Center Auditorium on campus.
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On Monday January 16, the MLK holiday, there will be a 9:30 am screening of the film followed by a 12:30 p-m MLK convocation which will feature stars Terrence Howard, Nate Parker, David Oyelowo, Tristan Wilds, Elijah Kelly, Red Tails director Anthony Hemingway and the surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen.
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The movie will be screened again at 2:30 pm, with star radio personality Tom Joyner who is a graduate of Tuskegee University moderating a panel discussion with the cast after the screening. If you can’t make it to the early screenings on Monday, the school will hold a later screening of Red Tails at 6:30 pm. For more information on the event you can visit the Tuskegee University website. Red Tails will land in theaters nationwide on January 20.
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