James Herman Banning was born on November 5, 1899, just four years before the Wright Brothers achieved their first flight in ...

The aviation-focused event to be held on Saturday, Feb. 22, is part of the city's Black History Month celebration.

Willa Brown’s life was marked by many significant firsts for her and American history. The Black travel history-maker was an ambitious woman with big dreams as a pioneering pilot and, later, in ...

About 10,000 mourners paid their last respects to the first African American woman aviator, filing past her coffin in Chicago South's Side. Her funeral was attended by several prominent African ...

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen’s service in World War II is inspiring: When skilled African American pilots ... removed videos about the Tuskegee aviators from its basic training curriculum.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — "Often you hear about the Tuskegee Airmen, but very seldom do you hear about the African American aviators of Vietnam," said Corpus Christi native George Hamilton.

The City of Rahway is soaring to new heights with an aviation-focused event celebrating Black History Month. Hosted by the ...

It was unveiled in 2012 by the Bessie Coleman Aerospace Legacy Inc. Group, founded by African-American women pilots. A plaque memorializes Coleman for her accomplishments as an aviator ...

On Saturday night, Tuskegee Airmen Inc., a nonprofit that seeks to preserve the legacy of the African American aviators, issued a statement saying it "strongly opposed" the removal of the videos.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- Willa Brown, an African American trailblazer from Glasgow, Kentucky, has broken countless barriers in the United States. As Bob Pitchford, a historian at Aviation Heritage Park, ...

KOKOMO, Ind. — Between 1941 and 1946, nearly 1,000 African American aviators completed flight training at Tuskegee University in Alabama. These members of the United States Army Air Force fought ...