The View: Josh Groban, Sherri Shepherd, Hot Topics Hot Topic Happy Presidents Day to You, You, You, You, Not You, You The View celebrates Biden’s first Presidents Day taking a look back at all of his appearances over the years. They show a lot of clips. I lost my dad to cancer and it suucckkss so I give Meghan a pass on that one clip. They say nice things. Hot Topic Black History Month Willa Beatrice Brown Willa Beatrice Brown was an American aviator, lobbyist, teacher, and civil rights activist. She was the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license in the United States, the first African American woman to run for the United States Congress, first African American officer in the Civil Air Patrol, and first woman in the U.S. to have both a pilot's license and an aircraft mechanic's license. She was a lifelong advocate for gender and racial equality in the field of aviation as well as in the military. She not only lobbied the U.S. government to integrate the United States Army Air Corps and include African Americans in the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP), she and Cornelius Coffey co-founded the Coffey School of Aeronautics, distinguishing it as the first private flight training academy owned and operated by African Americans in the United States. She trained hundreds of pilots, several of whom went on to become Tuskegee Airmen; the creation of the Tuskegee Airmen has been credited to Brown's training efforts. You can read more about Willa Beatrice Brown here.