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Hidden Figure Who Helped Create GPS Finally Recognized
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After decades of being overlooked, mathematician Gladys West, who calculated Earth's shape for the development of GPS, is finally being recognized.
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The AARP Minute: February 14, 2020
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In today’s “AARP Minute,” life expectancy for men is growing faster than for women, plus two movies to watch for Black History Month.
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'Around the Way' Trailer
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Hulu's three-part series, Around the Way, celebrates Black History Month by diving into the history of Atlanta, Los Angeles, and New York.
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Former Astronaut and NFL Player Leland Melvin on Space Mission, Second Career — AARP
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The former NFL player turned astronaut talks about how embracing change led him to new beginnings.
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Black History Month: Bettie Dahmer — AARP
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Bettie Dahmer’s family home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan when she was a child. Her father, Vernon Dahmer, a voting rights activist, was killed.
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Black History Month: Franklin McCain — AARP
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Franklin McCain was a civil rights pioneer who participated in a lunch counter sit-in in Greensboro, N.C., in 1960 to protest segregation. That event is credited with leading to other key chapters of the civil rights era.
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Black History Month Stories: Johnnie Young — AARP
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Johnnie Young was a witness to the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers by a white supremacist.
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Black Community Profile: Willa Brown - AARP
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Celebrating Willa Brown, who played an instrumental role in the integration of African Americans into the U.S. Army Air Corps. In 1941, she became the first African American officer in the Civil Air Patrol.
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Black Community Profile: Tuskegee Airman - AARP
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Celebrating The Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American military pilots (fighter and bomber) who fought in World War II, disproving the belief that African Americans were not fit for military combat.
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Black Community Profile: Benjamin O. Davis - AARP
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Celebrating Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., who was among the first group of aviators to earn their wings from the Tuskegee Institute. In 1954, Davis became the first African American Brigadier General in the U.S. Air Force.
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Mary McLoud Bethune - AARP
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Celebrating Mary McLeod Bethune, an American educator and life rights leader best known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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