Trump wants to undo diversity programs. Some agencies react by scrubbing US history and culture

By Kim Chandler and Gary Fields | The Associated Press Cadets at the Basic and Advanced Flying School for Negro Air Corps Cadets are shown, Jan. 23, 1942, lined up for review with Major James A. Ellison, who is returning the salute of Mac Ross of Dayton, Ohio, as he inspects the cadets. (AP Photo/U.S. Army Signal Corps)TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) — The tails of the Alabama Air National Guard’s F-35 Lightnings are painted red, like those of the Guard’s F-16s before them. It’s an homage to the famed Alabama-based unit of the Tuskegee Airmen, who flew red-tailed P-51 Mustangs during World War II.The squadron, which trained in the state, was the nation’s first to be comprised of Black military pilots, shattering racial barriers and racist beliefs about the capabilities of Black pilots. Their success in combat paved the way for the desegregation of the U.S. military, a story that is interwoven in state and U.S. history. Yet for a moment after President Donald Trump took office, that history was almost scrubbed by the Air Force.The service removed training videos of the Tuskegee Airmen along with ones showing the World War II contributions of the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs,...