Flt-Lt Sanni’s impressive records first made headlines in 2019 when she was decorated as the Nigerian Air Force’s (NAF) first female fighter pilot after completing her pilot training in the ...

Flt-Lt Sanni’s impressive records first made headlines in 2019 when she was decorated as the Nigerian Air Force’s (NAF) first female fighter pilot after completing her pilot training in the ...

Nigeria’s 1st female fighter pilot bags top honours at Ghana military college The awards were presented on Friday during the college’s graduation ceremony, attended by top military brass and ...

On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Nigeria’s first female fighter pilot, Sanni, emerged as the Best Allied Student and clinched the Best Assistant Commandant Paper award at the prestigious Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff ...

On Juneteenth I think about all the freedom fighters — famous and forgotten — who walked before us. And I think about all of us who walk now, still trying to finish what they began.

She was one of 39 Black women in WAC's first training class. She not only graduated but became the first Black female Army officer in U.S. history.

Weeks later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female Chief of Naval Operations. Soon thereafter he fired Lt. Gen. Jennifer Short, the senior military assistant ...

Former Gov. Doug Wilder, the first Black governor in the country post-Reconstruction, thinks it’s a good thing identity appears to be less of a focal point in the 2025 election.

The broadcast went on as planned, but ascendant phenom Doechii, winning her first BET Award, took a moment to acknowledge what was happening and to make a statement in solidarity with the protesters.

The bill was inspired by retired Navy Capt. Royce Williams, a legendary aviator who got into the longest dogfight in U.S.