In 1921, Bessie Coleman received her pilot's license becoming the first black licensed pilot.
Women and people of color had no training opportunities in the US so she learnt French and moved to Paris to earn her license.
Black Pilots Who Broke Barriers:
A THREAD
Excited is an understatement. 🤭
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#HSBCChampionships
So let me get this straight.
Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.
Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.
Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.
Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.
And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”
Please.
New York has waited 27 years for this moment.
The Empire State Building shines blue and orange tonight for the New York Knicks — in the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999. Let’s go @NYKNICKS!
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Some of y’all might be too young to remember but this song had all the soap operas in a straight up chokehold in the 80s.
Can’t believe Roberta and Peabo are gone.
RIP 🕊️
last week i graduated summa cum laude (top 5%) from HARVARD. 🙏🏽still feels surreal but a testimony to countless prayers and God’s guidance every step of the way. #AMDG
how it started how it’s going
As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.