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(Updated: February 5, 2021) Bessie Coleman (left) Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain // Shirley Chisholm (center) Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain // Dr. Lonnie Johnson (right) Office of Naval Research Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Whether they were involved in Civil Rights, politics, science, technology, sports, or music, African-American history is full of innovators, though they don't always get their due. Here are 25 unheralded Black pioneers and trailblazers you should know. 1. JESSE L. BROWN When Jesse LeRoy Brown was a teenager, he wrote a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to express his...

We share the time entirely including with our executive producer who is yelling at me to keep reading. today we want to recognize two people, thomas hudner and ensign jesse brown. brown was the navy's first avenue can american aviator. the two were part of the same squad ron during the korean war at a time when the thought was could white and black men couldn't fly together. >> hudner intentionatly crashed his plane to try and save brown. as hudner packed the cockpit in snow to keep the flames away, brown asked him to tell his wife he loved her. >> ensign brown was posthumously awarded the fly...

A few words today about a war hero, passionate advocate for the hungry of the world, peace activist and standard bearer for progressive causes, george mcgovern. his 1972 campaign was the first involving a young democrat a yo little rock, bill clinton, and his fellow yale law school student hillary rodham. he was portrayed by richard nixon as weak on defense. mcgovern flew 33 missions in world war ii. lieutenant mcgovern crash-landed i see plane and was awarded the flying cross. he was demonized by the nixon white house, which employed a team known as the plummers against him. the rest is histo...

I always admired what he did. i never thought i would break the record. if i have the chance i will take it. >> that was felix and joe on fox. and joe was right there winning the extinguished flying cross and awarded other medals by president eisenhower back in the day. so, later this year, 23 miles above the face of the earth, they land on lump -- jumping out. >>shepard: the new leader of north korea got hitched. the tv ended weeks of speculation and confirmed the woman who is always around him is his wife. the media report came at the end of the story on his visit to a new amusement park. it...