When Cheo Hodari Coker has a hard day, he pictures his 23-year-old grandfather in the cockpit of a P-51 Mustang fighter plane.⁠ ⁠ Coker, a Connecticut native, is a writer and producer known for the Marvel TV series “Luke Cage.” His grandfather, Lt. Col. Bertram Wilson, was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen and the famed Red Tails fighter group. For his World War II service, Wilson was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and a Bronze star – at a time when the U.S. military was racially segregated and African Americans were still subjected to racist Jim Crow laws.⁠ ⁠ “He would also talk about how they had instructors that would literally try to wash them out, the psychological games that they would play by constantly referring to them with the ‘N’ word. And how a lot of people couldn’t take it,” Coker said.⁠ ⁠ His grandfather told Coker to ignore the name-calling.⁠ ⁠ “He taught me, in very frank terms, to not let anything get in my way,” Coker said.⁠ ⁠ Wilson is featured in an ongoing e...