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#FlyingWhileBlack: Harvard Law School Student Booted From American Airlines Plane With Infant

There’s news of yet another black woman being hostilely removed from an American Airlines airplane. This time it was a 24-year-old Harvard Law student who was traveling with her 4-month-old baby from Atlanta to New York. She and her infant daughter were forced to sleep in the airport to catch the first flight out the…

By

Angela Helm

Published

October 18, 2017
Tamika Mallory, Co-Chair of Women’s March on Washington, Says American Airlines Pilot Kicked Her Off Flight Over Seat Dispute

Tamika Mallory, the co-chair of the Women’s March on Washington, says that she was kicked off an American Airlines flight on her way back home to New York from Miami after a pilot got involved in a seat dispute that she had taken up with a gate agent. According to Mallory, the pilot took it…

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Breanna Edwards

Published

October 16, 2017
Dying Woman Dragged Half-Naked Down Crowded Airplane Aisle by Emergency Workers

A woman who experienced medical distress shortly after entering an airplane bathroom was dragged partially clothed down the aisle of the crowded commercial airline, much to the horror of other passengers, so that EMTs could render medical aid to her outside the plane. The Minnesota Star Tribune reports that the woman, identified by relatives as…

By

Monique Judge

Published

June 16, 2017
Black Passenger Says American Airlines Forced Her to Give Up Her 1st-Class Seat but Let Her White Friend Remain

On May 2, Rane Baldwin checked into American Airlines Flight 5389, leaving Kentucky for Charlotte, N.C. Baldwin, a black woman, and her friend Janet Novack, a white woman, were traveling together, and both had first-class seats because Baldwin bought and upgraded the tickets. But unfortunately for Baldwin, she was literally moved to the back of…

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Yesha Callahan

Published

May 9, 2017
US Transportation Secretary Approves 6 Domestic Airlines to Begin Scheduled Flights to Cuba

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced Friday that the Department of Transportation has approved six domestic airlines to begin scheduled flights between the United States and Cuba as early as this fall, a press release from the White House notes. The approved carriers are American Airlines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Silver Airways, Southwest Airlines and Sun…

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Breanna Edwards

Published

June 10, 2016