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‘Sprouting Wings’ & Pursuing Dreams

As a farm boy growing up in Oklahoma around the turn of the 20th century, James Herman Banning dreamed big. He dreamed of one day touching the sky. But how could Banning, a young African American boy, find a plane much less locate someone who could teach him? In a new children’s picture book “Sprouting Wings: The True Story of …

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