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, and is co-executive producer/co-creator, with Ahmed Best, of The Afrofuturist Podcast
, and is co-executive producer/co-creator, with Ahmed Best, of The Afrofuturist Podcast
100 years ago Bessie Coleman became the first African American woman to earn her pilot’s license. In part because she was a woman, and especially a woman of color, Bessie had to travel all the way to Europe to get her flight training. Today on AirSpace, we’re looking back on Bessie’s experiences in France and Germany in the 1920s and exploring just how far she went to earn her historic license (and inspire generations of pilots along the way).
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Our museum collection is sometimes a working one. That means that scientists come to do aviation or space research using objects in the Museum.
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On a spring evening in 1933, Amelia Earhart took first lady Eleanor Roosevelt on a joyride. On this episode of AirSpace, we’re detailing the high-flying friendship of these two women – from their shared background as social workers to their mutual love of flight and advocacy of women’s empowerment and social justice.
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