Trump's anti-DEI order yanks Air Force video on first Black pilots
U.S. President Donald Trump's order halting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives has led the Air Force to suspend course instruction on a documentary about the first Black airmen in the U.S. military,
Trump's DEI order strips Air Force curriculum of 1st Black pilots, female WWII pilots
Trump's executive order halting DEI means the Air Force no longer teaches recruits about WWII's Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
Obeying Trump DEI order, Air Force will stop teaching recruits about Tuskegee Airmen
A video on the pioneering Black pilots, famed for their World War II exploits, was stripped from an Air Force basic training curriculum this week.
US Air Force will still teach about black pilots
The US Air Force will continue to teach about its first black pilots, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, in its basic training, following a review about what to prohibit under President Donald Trump's ban on diversity,
'This will not stand': Air Force resumes teaching on first Black pilots after DEI review
The move is a complete reversal of the Air Force's decision to no longer teach the history of the first Black and women pilots of WWII
The Tuskegee Airmen Are Not DEI, As Air Force Reinstates Curriculum On First Black Pilots
President’s Trump's push to eliminate DEI from Federal agencies through Executive Orders almost took out the story of an unlikely casualty: The Tuskegee Airmen.
Air Force resumes instruction with Tuskegee Airmen video after review
The U.S. Air Force resumed a course using training material that referred to the Tuskegee Airmen after the Trump administration’s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives
Bessie Coleman, the Black Cherokee Woman Pilot Who Made Aviation History
No aviation schools in America would teach Bessie Coleman how to fly in the 1920s. So, she sailed to France and became the ...
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Bessie Coleman
Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and ...
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First Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation dies
Nancy Leftenant-Colon became the first African-American woman to serve in the desegregated Regular Army ... after World ...
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, first Black woman to serve in US Army Nurse Corps, dies at 104
It was the same base where the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of primarily African American military pilots and service members ... and so far only, woman to be elected president of the Tuskegee ...
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Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition "Black Wings: American Dreams of Flight" opens on February 7th in Rahway
The City of Rahway is pleased to announce the opening of Black Wings: American Dreams of Flight at The Gallery Space (1670 ...