Data shows that fewer than 150 Black women fly professionally in the U.S., which represents less than 1 percent of all pilots.
Some may find it difficult to believe that in 2022, we’re still commemorating the “first Black” anything, but American Airlines recently made history with an all-Black female crew for the first time in the carrier’s 96 years.
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