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Mary McLeod Bethune is applauded for her work in education, civil rights and women’s...

Col. Gail "Candy Bomber" S. Halvorsen, a pilot that dropped 23 tons of candy during the Berlin Airlift to starving German children, has passed away at 101.

This is the origin story of critical race theory, the great migration and the civil rights movement.

People to that pilot training program, were going to -- we want to make sure half of those people are women and people of color because diversifying the cockpit is something long overdue. it is going to be necessary to address this shortage of pilots. if there is an industry wide shortage of pilots, we cant keep going to the same universities and recruiting from the same places. we need to expand the pool of candidates and there are a lot of qualified people out there and if we keep those rigoro...

Richard T. “Dick” Gillespie has been selected by State Senator Tom OMara for induction into the N.Y.S. Senate Veterans’ Hall of Fame.

Willa Brown’s work in the air and on land promoted awareness of African American pilots, made the way for them to join the military, and set an example for others.. Discover her story.

When World War II broke out, hundreds of women took to the skies in support of the war effort. Many contributed as Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). However, women like Willa Brown who were barred from becoming a military pilot by both her race and gender, found other ways to contribute. These are the stories of five women who contributed to the war effort by flying. 

I am proud to join Senators Cornyn and Cruz in recognizing the dedication and commitment that produced 80 years of excellence at Sheppard.

The Terre Haute pilot was the first Black woman to earn a commercial pilots license in the United States, and the first woman in the U.S. to have both a

Urbanist and historian Thomas J. Campanella, a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, was researching a book when he first came